On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 6:15 PM, David W. Fenton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Be careful making conclusions about the worth of a composer's music > based on recordings. A committed recording can make seemingly > unremarkable music seem magical. Also, some styles of music are > intensely rhetorical and if played "as written" will be boring as > hell (French Baroque is a perfect example of this).
Yes I meant to qualify my statement. I know Naxos is recording some of Cambini's wind chamber music, but I'm more keen on the orchestral stuff. Thanks for your offer of help and the information you provided. I'm not sure how old the Grove's article is, but I'll send you a copy off list tommorrow. It's rather odd that both the Mozart and Cambini sinfonia concertantes for the same Mannheim soloists have not survived-- there are plenty of other Cambini concertantes, but this one in particular vanished. Some doubt he had any real role in quashing the performance of Mozart's piece. Gluck said he was a very moral; so it seems unlikely Cambini would have been underhanded... Have you heard any theories about this? Kim Patrick Clow _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
