Satoshi Akima wrote: >In an age when thick, syrupy and heavy Bach was the norm, Scherchen >must have stuck out like a sore thumb. Then again even today by way of >comparison to Scherchen, Herrheweghe is left to seem too syrupy, heavy - >in short too old fashioned. I was around when it first appeared...at the same time as a Robert Shaw Chorale performance on RCA. Both were hailed at the time as refreshing departures from performances like that of Coates. Walter Meyer