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