On 16.02.2006 Andrew Stiller wrote:
The Baroque ensemble Tempesta di Mare has made a name for itself in part through its performances and recordings of reconstructed lute concertos by Sylvius Leopold Weiss--concertos for which only the lute part actually survives. The entire orchestral part had to be recreated. The resulting pieces sound very convincing and realistic, and are credited to Weiss, but I can't help but thinking, each time I hear one of them, that if Handel had done the exact same thing--taken a Weiss lute part and added new orchestral accompaniments--that we would not hesitate a moment to ascribe the resulting work to Handel, not Weiss. Your thoughts?
Incidentally, the extremely popular disc of Heinichen concerti with Musica Antiqua Cologne is the exact same situation (for the same reasons), where Reinhard Goebel "reconstructed" the orchestral parts, and some argue that it is more in the style of Reinhard Goebel than in the style of Heinichen. I am sure Goebel got a good royalty compensation for it...;-)
Johannes -- http://www.musikmanufaktur.com http://www.camerata-berolinensis.de _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
