Satoshi Akima wrote: >I think we need to tread carefully here. This choices here have not >been selected to show the pre-musicologically guided lot in the best >light. As for my suggestion of Bach's Mass, I am missing something here. I could kill for Janowitz's arias. >The bottom line is to enjoy performances for their own intrinsic virtues, >irrespective of whether the musicians are historically informed or not. >To set the one up against the other - that is a game meant for fools. Since I concur with Satoshi in what he says here, I for sure got lost in the intricacies of translating concepts "behind the words". Roberto Strappafelci