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Margaret Mikulska <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 5 Nov 2001 03:21:40 -0500
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John Smyth wrote:

>Bach's Art of Fugue with Savall: If Savall doesn't do it for me, I guess
>this music will never make sense to me.

This is a peculiar interpretation.  As if Savall thought that Bach was a
contemporary of Gibbons and Byrd.

Get the real thing, Leonhardt or Moroney on harpsichord.  AoF is not a work
for a viol consort or a chamber orchestra, but for a harpsichord.

-Margaret Mikulska

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