Hector Aguilar <[log in to unmask]> wrote, in response to me:
>>One word: bad. Don't buy it.
>Would you expound on this a little? What I have sometimes disliked about
>Mutter's playing is how hysterical she sometimes sounds, sometimes to
>the point where she sounds like she's lost control of the violin; but a
>couple of years ago she went around performing the cycle of B's sonatas,
>and my friend who heard her said it was perhaps the best performance of
>the sonatas he had ever heard. ...
Obviously we have a very different taste, for I also strongly dislike her
B sonatas. I really consider them the worst performance I have ever heard
and she plays the concerto in the style she used for the sonatas. So maybe
my dislike of the concerto is a recommendation to you.
Joyce Maier
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