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| From | kcronin <fiatluxury@yahoo.com> |
| Subject | Re: classical music recommendations? |
| Date | Mon, 8 Mar 2004 13:33:18 -0800 (PST) |
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--- ronald and karen sanchez <eldeluxe@mcn.net> wrote:
> The thing with classical is the performance can vary
> widely depending on
> the conductor and orchestra, or soloist. Even though
> it's played off a
> score, a lot of the details were not written down. I
> have multiple
> performances of pieces and the difference is
> shocking.
Good point - the Handel I like best of the ones I
tried was by Trevor Pinnock, subtitled "The English
Concert." It is indeed on original instruments and was
put out by BMG for Archiv Produktion. I have a couple
other versions that are slower that I don't like as
well...it could be because this was the first I was
accustomed to, but also, I mean, hell: this is party
music, after all - no need to make a dirge out of it.
Seems to me that Trevor Pinnock is all over the place
on my admittedly small classical collection - whether
that translates to "widely recognized as pretty good"
is beyond my ken (after all, look at Rick Rubin.)
--kelly
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