Re: [b] -- da bestest

[Nick Mailer <nickm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dave Snodgrass wrote:
> 
> I should be calm. I sent that in the heat of passion and frustration. I tire of
> my Schooled friends knocking what could be called the standards simply becuase
> they are tired of playing them (i.e. don't have the patience to perform the
> peice correctly). I see no love of music in that attitude and therfore will not
> call them musicians but justly underpaid hacks.
> You are probably correct on this Pinock fellow

No - Trevor Pinnock of the English Concert.

Download the 1st movement of the 5th Brandenburg:

http://ice.cream.org/~nickm/brand5_1.mp3

Listen to this please. The interchange between the instruments and the
phrasing is incredible. Basically, the whole movement is a kind of
celebration of the harpsichord escaping from its servile bassline duties
into holding the whole glory of the concerto to itself and then
exploding into the musical stratosphere. Listen to the solo bit LOUDLY
and just imagine the fingering on it. It's incredible.


 All Hail Henderson, Emperor of Root Beer


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