Jeremey McMillan ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

>Try Bach's Mass in B minor by John Eliot Gardner on the Archiv label.
>This performance dates back to the 80s (1985, I think).  Anyway, the mass
>was performed on period instruments using A415 tuning.  (It sounds like
>Bb minor) Make sure to take time to listen to the Credo.  Note: Once you
>listen to a performance in the old baroque tuning, don't listen to the
>same work in A440 or higher.

A strange recommendation for somebody who was asking about Mozart piano
concertos.

As for your last sentence - having listened to (and, for heaven's sake,
paid good money for!) Gardiner's B minor, I couldn't wait to hear somebody,
anybody else's; no matter what the pitch.

Deryk Barker
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