Brian Blackwell writes:
>Now HIP has made its way into the Classical and Romantic eras - in short,
>the standard orchestral repertoire. For many reasons, I believe they'll
>remain largely an addendum here ...
I hope so! My biggest HIP disappointment was Gardiner's HIP Verdi Requiem.
The big, earth-shattering bass drum thwacks hardly sounded. My mother
could make more noise beating a rug on a clothesline.
John Smyth