Gardiner is taking it on the chin lately: David Stewart wrote: >I have his Christmas Oratorio and found it really clinical and dry >sounding. There was no warmth at all. Patrik Enander wrote of Gardiner's Bach Mass: >Two nights ago I listened to Gardiner's version for the first time. >After awhile I all of a sudden asked myself: .... But isn't this rather >shallow? What was your answer? (just being a wiseguy). Clinical, dry, no warmth, and shallow; traits that I don't find in Gardiner's Bach Mass or Christmas Oratorio. The traits that do currently stick out in my mind are: theatrical, exciting, propulsive, and incisive. I do have a question for Patrik and David. Do you find Gardiner's performances of the Bach cantatas an improvement over the Mass and Christmas Oratorio. Don Satz [log in to unmask]