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Re: Handel's Suites for Harpsichord
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Ron Chaplin <[log in to unmask]>
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Sat, 24 Jul 1999 04:08:54 PDT
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Don Satz has written that Wanda Landowska's pre-war RCA-Victor recordings
of Handel's Harpsichord Suites "stand as a monument to past performing
practices."

I was wondering just what "past performing practices" are and how modern
performing practices differ from them.

Thanks.

Ron Chaplin

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