Tim Mahon:

>But I, for one, would much rather hear the performer's interpretation
>than that of the recording engineer.  Stitching together 'takes' so far
>separated in time (or, indeed, separated at all in time) strikes me as ...
>well, I don't quite know what it is, but I'm pretty convinced it's not a
>recording of the piece of music the composer wrote.

Hey, you knew what you were getting!  This is not exactly artistic
integrity, all right.  I can appreciate your outrage on moral grounds but
not necessarily on aesthetic grounds.  The question there is, did it sound
good or not? Glenn Gould would have approved of this, I think.  Someone
recently quoted a German conductor--I forget who--whose single word moral
judgment was applicable here, though.  (Would the sender of that re-send
this to me? Thanks.)

Jim Tobin