Don Satz wrote: >Very good performances are given by Aldwell, the Keller Quartett, and >Alain. Aldwell employs moderate tempos and a lovely and seamless legato. >There's plenty of mystery and sunlight; macabre elements are low. My >primary reservation is some note banging in the last half of the fugue. >The Keller Quartet is very expressive, haunting, and joyous at the right >moments; the group's misfortune is having Savall and Hesperion XX as >competition. With all due respect, in the last sentence you make an apples vs. oranges comparison. The Keller recording is a quartet arrangement while Savall's is a chamber orchestra arrangement. Both are interesting, esp. for those interested in period performance practice. A more appropriate comparison would be the Keller vs. the Juilliard on Sony since they are both for string quartet and stylistically they offer very different approaches (HIP vs. modern interpretation). There is another string quartet recording by the Portland Quartet (on Arabesque) that uses Roy Harris' slightly abridged arrangement. Ramon Khalona