At 06:49 AM 1/19/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >"Weiss's lute works as the basis of the A-major Violin Sonata (BWV >1025).=20 >The suite that Mr. O'Dette played was lively, ornate and rich in the >kind=20 >of sequenced figuration that sits comfortably on the lute. Still, apart=20 >from its zestily contrapuntal Gigue, it was not quite the equal of the >Bach= >scores." > >very typical for a reviewer of a newspaper not to be able to detect the >qualities of Weiss. They still use a romantisicing (is there such a word?) >approach to judge the quality of pre-baroque music.
Silly, but regarding any mixed programs that contain any work by Bach, from the trivial to the monumental, it seems standard for reviewers or program-note authors to offer the ubiquitous "...not quite the equal of the Bach" in reference to any non-Bach work. Eugene To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
