Sorry - after a couple of beers it sometimes happens I hit the wrong key ..
Actually one can assume they had a *very* good ear and the examples you had the "pleasure" to listen to would sound rather offending to them. All the best Thomas (time to go to bed - to much foot, to much alcohol and just listend to the well meant Tull Christmas song "christmas spirit is not what you drink" ...) Am Fre, 2003-12-26 um 00.23 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Hope you all had a nice Christmas. Hearing I was learning something as > obscure and ancient as the lute, a well-meaning friend bought me a couple of CDs for > Christmas, played on original instruments, the Handel Fireworks music, and > the Mozart horn concertos. The horns in particular sound dreadful, awfully out > of tune, so much so that I got a headache after a while. > > My question: do you believe that the composers heard that out-of-tunesness in > the heads when they composed the music, even liked the sound (knowing no > other), or would they have longed for instruments that actually played what they > wrote? (Though Bruckner liked the natural horn because of the flat seventh, > which he preferred). In the Handel it simply spoils the wonderful tutti effects, > that glorious brass. In the Mozart there's little left of the actual solo > music, just this bloke, no doubt doing his best, and playing as though he were > having some sort of extremely unpleasant seizure while doing so. Would not > Mozart, Handel and co been utterly delighted with a modern horn, and does this not > cast certain doubts on the validity of at least some of that the Authentic > Instruments people are doing? > > I realise this is not a lute question, just a thought that crossed my mind > and which I would like to pass on, in the hope of receiving an answer which > might convince me that recording music such that the result makes one long to be a > bus driver, and not a musician, is worth the effort? > > Cheers, happy new year to all > > Tom Beck > > -- -- Thomas Schall Niederhofheimer Weg 3 D-65843 Sulzbach 06196/74519 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.lautenist.de / www.tslaute.de/weiss --
