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It has been a long time since I enjoyed "early music", and I think I can pretty much trace my falling out with the genre to the meteoric rise of Christopher Hogwood and Company, with their twistedandpained "authentic" expression, using the well-researched, "period" instruments.  Sorry, but the most charitable thoughts I can muster on the matter at this time is that they (CH&C), like Sir Nevil Mariner and AoSMitF, just did too much too fast, and I was not only bowled over but also knocked flat and left weary and disgusted in their wake(s).

HOWEVER (being nothing if not Mercurial): At the same time, during my long disaffection with "early music", I have yet compulsively picked up just about every oddball "classical" LP I have noticed, inlcuding glass harmonica and recorder.  I actually like the sound of both instruments - at times - and also there are apparently some compositions for them that are not instant-sleep-inducing "correct" versions, but they date to a happier day and time before anyone made such a gigantic deal of "authenticity', but they just played the piece well, and damn the torpedoes.

Because of or despite the foregoing, I will look for the performance you tout, with the same high hopes that prompted the idiotic purchase of my most recent Gregorian Chant CD...


Best regards,
Paul S

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