background information - not vitriol. the following was posted to the rec.music.early site by francis biggi in response to a negative comment, belittleing karamazov's playing and lamenting sting's financial gain from the recordings:
" ... Edin is not a 3d class player. just think of his work with Andreas Scholl or Hesperion. After all, why not Edin? The man knows his place. He is an excellent "accompagnatore:" very versatile. Could you imagine Paul O'Dette accompanying another star, AND staying in the background? And, after all, Sting lives in Europe, spending most of his time in Italy: so why not Hopkinson, Eugène Ferré or one of the good Italian players, like Damiani, Marincola, or Pavan? The connection between Sting and Edin was made, i presume, by Richard Levitt who taught Sting how to deal with Elizabethan songs. Levitt lives in Basel and Edin was one of the students at the Schola Cantorum and was close to Richard in his last teaching years (I was there too.)" olè - bill Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
