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DL, since you're into SACD, let me suggest the one that I got recently although I don't have a player. I got it for the CD layer and an excellent performance of Tchaikovsky's great ballet. I also played the SACD layer on a colleague's player and it's fine. It's available at a very good price at Tower so, I'll add it to those items in my previous reply.

I'm not very heavily into Mozart, but I do have Symphony 40 in a collection that has a fine performance along with Serenades and Overtures. The price is even better now, in fact remarkably low .

Oh, and Ken if you'd like a CD of the revised version of the Beethoven 9th(at the suggestion of Mozart, Beethoven removed the scraping chair passage from the 1st movement), try this .

That... would be the CD that I have.

Beethoven received advice from dead people?

It was during a seance, Adam(very good, Adam; just kidding around to see who would pick up on that little point).

VACLAV NELHYBEL:Trittico
First Movement: Allegro maestoso
Frederick Fennel
Dallas Wind Symphony

Isaac Albeniz:Festival Day in Seville
Frederick Fennell
Dallas Wind Symphony

Polka from the "Bolt"
Schostakowitch from Opus3 No. 79-03

"... i got NO classicla music in my collection.. NONE.. and it aint cause i dont like it, i just never knew where to begin. its not like you can turn on a radio, and go, "hey, i really like that symphony.. i think i will go buy it"... "

You can't just listen to the radio and say "hey I really like that"??? The radio is where I get a lot of my ideas for purchases. True you often have to go to the stations webpage - but all that takes is a computer and an internet or two.

Interesting thread. I am really into classical music now - but I don't like ANY symphonies - so far anyway. I don't know what it is - maybe I can't appreciate so many instruments at one time?

I do like most Baroque chamber music and classical period chamber music. Haven't ventured much beyond those two categories (except for the well reviewed symphonies that I ended up not liking).

I listened to the SACD version of Bach's orchestral suites (I think the name is right) by the Boston Baroque Orchestra
- highly reviewed but boring to me. I do like their Brandenburg discs - I suppose that is the only full orchestra piece I like.

I pretty much read the penguin Classical CD guide and listen to the radio to get my tips. Can't go too far wrong if it gets a Rosetta.

By the way - anyone want to buy an almost complete set of Beethoven's Symphonies by Abbado on DVD-audio?

Saints-Saens' "Symphony No. 3 in C" (the Organ Symphony) - otherwise known as the music from the movie "Babe"

OK...just got done listening to my 9th again. I haven't really listened to the disc on my Axioms before. Whoa mamma! ~

Absolutely stunning.

OK, now I've got to listen to it on the Axioms.