Listening to the Walton second symphony, which is, I have to say, one of my favorite symphonies ever. Wags consider it the weak sister of the first symphony - I like it better than the first. Oops. I love the first, too, but there's something about the second that just gets inside me. Fantastic music - many recordings - I uploaded two - the American premiere of the piece by George Szell and the Cleveland Symphony, and the much later done for CD on Chandos. I played the first minute of the Szell and then the same on the Chandos just to see which I wanted to hear - night and day - the Szell is superb sound, maybe one of the best sounding classical recordings I've ever heard. The Chandos tempos seem off to me, but it's the damn sound - the orchestra is about three blocks down the road and you get know detail at all and believe me you want the detail in Walton. This is amazing music I could listen to over and over again.