And to counter the oafish pot shots he takes at Wagner and Gould, may I
recommend the exquisite:

Wagner's Siegfried Idyll
Glenn Gould conducts the original version for 13 instruments
(also plays his own piano transcriptions of Wagner)
SONY SK46279

Tim Romano

At 02:57 PM 8/1/03, Tim Redman wrote:
>[....]
>  The
>review would have been much better if the reviewer had just stuck to music.
>But of late the NY Times has acquired a reputation for dubious
>inventiveness.