Thomas Boyce ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

>As to John Eliot Gardiner and Malcolm Bilson, I really like the way the
>orchestra "rocks" on Concerto no. 20.  Also with Gardiner's recording,
>I hear all of the instruments clearly.  Too bad he used the pianoforte.
>I get used to it after a few minutes, but it's not the same as hearing
>a modern piano. Say, Wilhelm Kempff playing, and Gardiner conducting.
>That would be interesting.

Yeeeeeeeeeesh!  Their approaches are so utterly different, I can't imagine
it being other than horrible.

However, you remind me that Kempff's K.488/K.491 with IIRC the Bamberg SO
and Leitner is delightful.

And how could I have forgotten Curzon's coupling of K.466 and K.575 with
Britten?

BTW I can't say I'm much taken with the Bilson/Gardiner set.

Deryk Barker
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