Let me introduce myself

[Haffner]

Welcome!

[Sef]

Thank you all for your kind words of welcome. In response to some of your comments:

1. I do feel lucky to live close to one of the world's best orchestras, but at $50 a pop (and my family is quite large) it's not something that I can do every week! I have thought more than once that I will volunteer on the door when I retire so that I can go more often! Still, with Ravinia and the Grant Park Music Festival there's plenty to keep me going until then.

2. I shall certainly be frequenting Pettersson's Pavilion - I have been a visitor there for a few months now, and where I obtained much of my information on this wonderful composer. I hope that sometime in my lifetime I shall have an opportunity to see one of his symphonies live.

3. I enjoy all of Rangstrom's symphonies. On a lighter note, I just love the organ entrance 2:30 into the 2nd movement of the 4th - reminds me of one of those B-movies with the phantom behind the keyboard! Makes me smile every time, but I suppose it's not what the composer meant.

I look forward to joining in some interesting conversations.

[paulb]

Hi Sef

also consider schnittke
Requiem/Chandos
Choir Concerto/Chandos
and this Penitential Psalms

http://www.amazon.com/Psalms-Repentance-Alfred-Schnittke/dp/B00000K2KS/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1203002262&sr=1-2

The Requiem and CC are good,  HOWEVER  we await other recordings, there's more potential.
Penitential Psalms is only fair, we definetly await another recording of this powerful work.