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David Stewart wrote:
>I HATE the fortepiano. I think it is one case in which there can be no
>reason for HIP. So twangy. Not so bad for Haydn but Mozart's music needs
>bubbly arpeggios and flowing cantabile, not twang. I think these people
>had a far more ideal sound in their heads when they wrote these things.
>Imagine Beethoven's Pathetique on the piano he actually had. Or the
>Hammerklavier! Ha!
At the risk of getting the hell edited out of me by our ever fair and
gracious moderator:
How could any composer have a "far more ideal sound" in their head when
they didn't know what one was. To the record listeners of yesteryear,
electrically recorded 78 r.p.m. records were tantamount to a live concert
in their high fidelity. Yes, great composers pushed the limits of the
instruments of the day, but they would have no earthly way of imagining
anything like unto today's modern Steinway.
>I've never heard a cembalo in my life though. Probably be a 'cembalo'
>setting on my casio keyboard though... will look...
You've never heard a cembalo? Are you aware that "cembalo" is the
Italian word for "Harpsichord"? You claim to have heard Gardiner and King
recordings. Have you listened to them? They abound in the presence of the
cembalo. I don't mean to offend you sir, but you spout off about things
of which you know little to nothing. This is a very irritating habit.
I think perhaps that with the tone of some of your comments, you don't
deserve much better than a casio.
Kevin Sutton
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