By Robert J. Cruce on September 16, 2000 I, too, wondered through the years what I was missing by clinging so stubbornly to this recording, originally purchased on LP over 30 years ago. The first CD reissue of these performances was horrible, so why not try something up to date? I rue the day I bought an all digital recording on Philips by one of the maximum Horn superstars in the world (since sold in a garage sale at a fraction of its original cost). The musical culprit will have a bag placed over his head to protect the guilty. I got Mozart horn concerti turned into superstar ego vehicles complete with pretentious rubato, ridiculously self indulgent (and interminable) "cadenzas" and an aura of 20th century vulgarity. So its back to Dennis Brain and they got the transfer to digital right this time. You can't go wrong with this recording now sounding warm and inviting again. Accept no substitutes! This is the one you'll come back to.