Donald Satz wrote:

>Sometimes, I make dumb purchases.  Two days ago, I bought Marriner's Art of
>the Fugue and Musical Offering on Phillips.  I already know that I dislike
>modern instruments for Baroque works and am never satisfied when I purchase
>them.  Yet, every two years or so I still buy a baroque recording on modern
>instruments.

This is a distantly source, in terms of memory, reply. I'm not sure I would
condemn modern performances based on this recording. I haven't heard it in
years, but I seem to remember that it was very poor interpretively, forget
the instruments.

Roger Hecht