Gerardo Constantini replies to me:
>In all this trend i was not to much noticed about it, but Vivaldi was
>great as Haendel was it too. A question for Bach admirers(like me):
>Why Bach took so much material from Vivaldi to make a wonderful
>transcriptions?.
I think the answer to that one is quite simple. Vivaldi was Bach's
favourite composer. As Micheal Caine would say "not a lot of people
know that".
It does raise the question: How do the list members who love Bach yet
criticise Vivaldi justify their stance?
Bob Draper
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