On 18.01.2007 Ken Moore wrote:
Andrew was committed to Joshua's view (with practical accommodations, such as
addition of ripieno singers for the bigger choruses) by 1985, when he made his
own
recording of the B minor Mass, using some of Joshua's parts.* My recollection
of the
"Early Music" correspondence in c. 2000 is that Andrew immediately weighed in on
Joshua's side.
* I found the quality of the performance as convincing an argument as the
deductions
from the historical evidence.
I have that recording, never liked it much. Too much compromise for my
taste. Either go all the way, or don't do it.
I have a concert recording of a performance with Joshua (where I played)
from Regensburg in 98 or 99. I still prefer that by a long way, despite
the technical inadequacies.
BTW the recording was made using an artificial head recording mike, with
no extra microphone. The balance is perfect, even between trumpets and
everything else. The power of the Kyrie fugue still gives me a chill.
(There are things I don't like about it, but they are things which have
nothing to do with the number of forces or other "historical" decisions.
It is true that Andrew took Joshua's side from the beginning. The two
are acquainted. The reason I name him is because he then wrote the book,
trying to take out some of the polemics in the discussion and coming
back to a scientific approach.
Johannes
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