Ron Chaplin ([log in to unmask]) wrote: >Yesterday, I received the latest mailing from BMG Classical Music >Service. There is an offer of the complete Mozart symphonies (19 CD's) >on L'Oiseau-Lyre, performed by The Academy of Ancient Music - Christopher >Hogwood, for $99.98, w/o S&H. This seems like a great offer to me. I >wonder if anyone else feels the same. I eagerly bought the final box on LP when it appeared (I cannot love the earlier symphonies). After a few years it sunk in to me that I never listened to it anymore. On digging it out and relistening I relaised why - it's horrible. The kind of performance (acidic strings, dubious intonation) which gave "Authentic" performances a bad name in the early(ish) days. YMMV Deryk Barker [log in to unmask]