Philip Peters wrote:

>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.

Is it possible that the Lindsays are fallible? A few years ago only the
British magazines raved about them; now, the U.S.  does as well.  Actually,
I've loved what I've heard from them - Mozart, Haydn, and Schubert.  Since
I'm partial to Mozart/Haydn on period instruments, my affection for the
Lindsays is quite an endorsement.  They just seem to have their thumbs on
the pulse of the music; I really admire that, and it sounds great too.

Did any of you obtain Goebel's 2-disc set of Bach cantatas which came
out about 9 months ago? There's a depth and emotional reverence to Bach's
cantatas which, of course, do not apply to the Brandenbergs.  I have not
reached a final conclusion, but I suspect that Goebel does not reach into
those aspects fully, while in the Brandenbergs I always feel that Goebel is
having a "blast."

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