[Peter Wieck]

I have a couple of test-pieces that I use when running new (to me)
equipment through its Fitness Tests. Initial test bits (short for quick
filtering and in no particular order) a

Handel: Let the Bright Seraphim

Ronstadt & Harris: Highwayman

Clarke: Trumpet Voluntary

Final Test Pieces: For those that have passed the first without flaw:

Saint-Saens: Organ Symphony

Mozart: Exultate Jubilate

All of these have enough going on that restrictions in headroom,
speaker response or other subtle defects will manifest pretty
obviously. I have several versions of the classical stuff, but I lean
to Kiri TeKanawa for the Handel & Mozart, The
Telarc/Philadelphia/Murray/Ormandy version of Saint-Saens as St.
Francis de Sales actually has 30' pipes, not electronic reinforcement,
and Wynton Marsalis for the Clarke.

What are yours?

Peter Wieck
Wyncote, PA