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Kevin Sutton <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 8 Aug 2000 00:21:01 -0500
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Kim Patrick Clow wrote:

>Please forward the email for the Decca executives that we all can write
>to in order maybe to sway them to complete this project.  Michael Haydn
>Complete Symphony Cycle by Hogwood: now that would be incredible.

Michael Haydn? Yes that would be interesting, but not by Hogwood!

>Speaking of Naxos: they are in a project of recording a fair number of the
>Vanhal Symphonies.  I would just drool to hear those same works performed
>by Hogwood.  Or a Dittersdorf cycle.  But whom I am kidding? We are lucky
>that even this much of Papa Haydn has made it to disc.

What's wrong with the ones on Naxos? Hogwood is over-rated and often
downright dull IMHO.  The Dittersdorf recordings on Naxos are superb.
Why pay three times the price for dull predictable Hogwood?

Kevin

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