Glenn Miller asked: >Anybody have any comments on Ricci's version of Bach violin solo >sonatas... I cannot find a rating anywhere ... I remember listening to them on LP (turntable sidelined for a while sadly) a long time ago. I was always struck by Ricci's sense of intonation which is very much of the "unequal" tuning school. Leading 7ths (e.g. B natural in a C minor scale) are very close to their tonic (so sharp to many ears); descending flattened 7ths (e.g. B flat in a C minor scale) are much further away (therefore flat to many ears). Major thirds similarly are a very wide interval to our "equal tuned" ears with minor thirds markedly flatter. The whole tuning was more than just a musical foible - it helped the shape of many of the solo works (as also with the Paganini) in that one got a distinct feeling of where the music was going and where it had been coming from. Christopher Rosevear