Donald Satz recommended:

>Verlet gets my vote by virtue of idiomatic performances and outstanding
>sound.

I almost always (respectfully, Dave) disagree with Don Satz's
recommendations [Hey, me too, but for different reasons.  :-)  -Dave],
and am frankly, often puzzled by his tendency to favor more, or most recent
recordings of a given work over some of the stellar performances of the
past.  It is not so much that Don dismisses Wanda Landowska's pre-war
RCA-Victor recordings of Handel's Suites with faint praise ("(they) stand
as a monument to past performing practices"), but that he omits from his
overview more recent recordings of the suites by harpsichordists Thurston
Dart and Anton Heiller, and those by pianist Glenn Gould, all certainly
worthy of at least mention if one is going to hold up Blandine Verlet's
playing as exemplary.

John Dalmas
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