There were other parts in that review that were generally offensive: reducing the whole history of the Baroque lute to the few pieces "by" Bach really stinks of the utmost ignorance of the true facts. My guess is that the reviewer is a classical guitar player who thinks that Weiss wrote Baroque guitar music... Alain
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >"Weiss's lute works as the basis of the A-major Violin Sonata (BWV >1025).=20 >The suite that Mr. O'Dette played was lively, ornate and rich in the >kind=20 >of sequenced figuration that sits comfortably on the lute. Still, apart=20 >from its zestily contrapuntal Gigue, it was not quite the equal of the >Bach= >scores." > >very typical for a reviewer of a newspaper not to be able to detect the >qualities of Weiss. They still use a romantisicing (is there such a word?) >approach to judge the quality of pre-baroque music. > >Thomas > > > >To get on or off this list see list information at >http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > >
