> > Advocate - If a performer isn't doing all of these > > things "right," does it mean that he/she isn't doing > > French style?
> asked him about playing Bach on a piano. His answer: if it is worth > doing it is worth doing badly. > That still cracks me up. Yeah, cracks me up, too. And I decidedly say No. Early recordings like Gerwig, playing Bittner, et al shaped my notions and prejudices concerning French baroque lute music. Some modern recordings still suffer from that unfortunate state of mind. I'm not religious on French style, and I'm still puzzled by David Taylor's remarks about two different kinds of inegale. Yet even IMHO there are some basic ideas which constitute French baroque lute style. Not taking them into account equals eating soup with a fork. -- Mathias To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
