I love the title. James Tobin wrote re Harnoncourt conducting the quintet: >Well, going by Amazon.com's website, that is what it says on the album, >but he is also listed as playing one of the harpsichords, so I am sure he >doesn't get up and wave a stick, though he no doubt gets to set the tempi. >I'm guessing he got listed as conductor out of pure habit. It's very common for baroque music conductors to do their thing from the keyboard, including in the smaller ensembles. They wave a hand when it doesn't have anything else to do; otherwise they do it with their elbows, body movement and arching of the eyebrows ;-) Andrys in Berkeley http://www.andrys.com/books.html Search sheet music, videos, CDs, books