Gerry Kelly wrote:

>Philip peters wrote:
>
>>Pinnock and Goebel for me, please...
>
>I agree Philip, but have you ever read the review of Goebel's Brandenburg
>Cs in the Penguin Guide? The writer claims that is is "hard not to laugh
>out loud" because of the speed.  I think the speed is exciting.

Yes, I actually read that.  The Penguin Guide, apart from being
chauvinistic, also rates recordings by some performers consistently as bad
for the same reasons.  With Goebel it's *speed*, with the Guarneri Qt.
it's *superficiality* while the Lindsays can do no wrong.  Just one more
example.

Philip