At 05:36 PM 4/4/2005, Roman Turovsky wrote: >I catch JW on the radio once in a while. To this day I cannot figure out >what's the big deal about this dude...
I don't know that this is quite the appropriate forum for this topic, but I think Williams' recordings can come off a little dry, too perfect, almost mechanical... However, he is magical in performance. His tone from stage is crisply defined and pure with excellent projection, his phrasing is logically and artfully organized, and he simply doesn't err, even when playing outrageously difficult music. He makes no more effort to appeal to the period-performance cult (of which I am an occasional, semi-zealous member) than Gould did. That's OK; old music needs advocates in the modern world too. Best, Eugene To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
