Quoting David Thompson: > > Nelson Dalley wrote: >> Nobody in the audience knows the difference when playing >> the revised version > > Unfortunately, that is not at all true, as witnessed by the fact that the > original poster clearly noticed this little bit of cheating going on - and > not from a live performance where visual cues might help, but from a > recording they were hearing over the internet. > > The reality is that it is very obvious when players do this - we CAN hear > lines so it is not legitimate to say that it adds up to the same result - > and honestly I have never understood why people felt it was either kosher or > really all the beneficial to do so. If you are playing appropriate > equipment for Brandenburg 1, and generally have the technical command to be > comfortable performing the work as a whole, those couple of octaves will not > be the greatest challenges in the work.
Amen, brother! This lick is a great example of the difference between playing the notes Bach wrote and playing the music Bach wrote. Besides, if Aubrey Brain could play it as written on a peashooter with a B-flat crook in the days before tape editing, so can anyone else who has any business playing the work in the first place. Howard Sanner Who will never be in the business of Brandenburg 1 [email protected] _______________________________________________ post: [email protected] unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
