Patrik Enander wrote:

>Yesterday I heard an interview with Christopher Hogwood on Swedish Radio
>He thought that Beethoven's violin concerto was rubbish.  He also thought
>that Beethoven on the whole was overrated, that his symphonies were so
>badly written you had to "clean" them before performing them!

Yesterday I heard an interview on Liechtenstein Public Radio in which L
van B declared "Christopher Hogwood is rubbish, in fact I have never heard
anything good out of any English conductor." It was part of their seances
with dead composers series.

Mike Cole