Yes, that recording is interesting and quite convincing. A few years ago some of the early music players in Dallas put on "Israel in Egypt" with 3 or 4 violins, and it worked very well.
Aaron J. Rabushka [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://users.waymark.net/arabushk ----- Original Message ----- From: "Johannes Gebauer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2007 12:23 PM Subject: Re: [Finale] mozart (OT) > On 16.01.2007 Kim Patrick Clow wrote: > > Payroll records weren't the only way to figure out how many musicians > > performed at concerts, the number of parts tells us how many played as > > well. (Of course as Joshua Rifkin's research as proved, not everyone > > agrees. > > > As someone who used to play with Joshua regularly in the past, I found > not only his arguments convincing but also the result. I did the B minor > mass with his group, with 8 singers (no choir), 4 violins and everything > else one to a part, and it really works. In fact I much prefer that to > any conventional performance. > > Johannes > -- > http://www.musikmanufaktur.com > http://www.camerata-berolinensis.de > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
