Sorry about that last one; I'm using a new mail program. (I'd be interested in hearing from someone who knows the ins and outs of Apple's Mail progam)
Roman Turovsky wrote: > Some are discussing Kapsberger, although even his champions admit that > as > a composer he was simply incompetent. There aren't a lot of musicians championing composers they consider incompetent. I'll grant that Rolf Lislevand's remarks about Kapsberger in the notes to his CD of Libro Quarto makes me wonder why he bothered recording it (maybe they sound less damning in the original French) and why he's headed a group called "Ensemble Kapsberger." Lislevand does seem to have a knack for damning with loud damns. Those same notes say "a taste for artificiality became the aesthetic value of a decadent period, later to be called Baroque." Take THAT, J.S. Bach... But it's a mistake to extrapolate too much from one strange set of comments accompanying a strange recording. Paul O'Dette's introduction to his 1990 Kapsberger CD makes rather more sense, noting the esteem in which Kapsberger was held in the 17th century, and his falling out with Doni, whose "vitriolic [printed] attack [against Kapsberger] has apparently provided the basis of most commentary about Kapsberger and his music ever since, without, evidently, objective consideration of the music." To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
