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