Have to admit, at the moment, is often a cd by janine jansen.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Janine-Jansen-Pyotr-Ilyich-Tchaikovsky/dp/B00009Z54O

oooo, tam knows lots, I must dig them out

A CD of Vivaldi's violin concertos, L'estro Armonico op.3 nrs. 1 - 7.

I can't find any information about this CD on the web. It's on PILZ records, performed by the Camerata Romana, conducted by Eugen Duvier.

I'm just working my way up to listening to the Maderna Mahler 9, first time with the CD recording although I have an ancient cassette of it somewhere. As I remember, the first movement is daringly slow. My music before the music before bedtime was orchestral music by franz Schreker. Beautifully opulent orchestration but without the harmonic sophistication of someone like Strauss.

ulrica, I thinkit's this one, http://www.hungaroton.hu/classic/eng_info.php?info=940&vez=m .

Hungaraton are handled by Naxos in Japan, and maybe Australia too.

They do look lovely Bryn, and I'll have to give them a try. But the main one I've been listening to is this:

http://www.naxos.com/catalogue/item.asp?item_code=8.550954
...the page contains a list of suppliers for various places.

There's also this one which I learnt about here - er, sorry, on the R3 message boards:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bartok-Album-Muzsikas/dp/B00000JZ15/sr=1-1/qid=1170973873/ref=sr_1_1/026-1375509-4135633?ie=UTF8&s=music
...it's quite different. Contains some of Bartók's field recordings.

I haven't decided on tonight yet, but I felt I should report back on last night's MBB. I had the shock of my life when the applause started a few seconds after the end of the piece, not just because it was inevitably a hundred times louder than those last sounds, but principally because if I'd been at the concert I would have been sitting there with my mouth hanging open unable to move a muscle. Anyone expecting Maderna to have a similarly analytical attitude to his friend and colleague Boulez would be dead wrong, except in terms of making audible every line in every texture - the tempi are startlingly flexible and seemingly unpremeditated, and sometimes indeed there seem to be several tempi going at the same time (not quite sure what I mean by that), although what they add up into is a completely coherent and authentic view of the work. Anyone for whom this symphony has any importance (and for me there are no pieces which have more, and very few which have as much) ought to take the time to hear this recording through.