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