Donald Satz wrote:

>Dave Pitzer wrote:
>
>>It is, of course, a purely personal thing but Bach on period instruments
>>(and using period playing techniques) is almost required now.  (Except --
>>strangely -- for the non-organ keyboard works where a modern piano is often
>>the "best" sounding to me).
>
>I know what Dave means about the "strange" aspect.  You tell people you are
>a HIP/period instrument person and, if honest, also tell them you prefer
>the piano. It does sound contradictory.  But, personal pleasures and
>preferences pay little attention to consistency or logic.

I played Szymon Goldberg's Brandenburgs the other day and find them every
bit as great as I did when I first heard them.  I played Reiner's Suites
and liked them immensely.  I have these works in several of the best
HIP-performances too (Goebel, Pinnock) but, although I have gotten *used*
to the HIP-sound too, I am not prepared nor able to discount the non-HIP
versions in which I discover things missing in other performances.  This is
maybe what makes a recording important:  that it offers something you don't
find *anywhere else* and still seems relevant to one's understanding and
enjoyment of the work in question.

Philip