Hi Chris,
Thanks for bearing with my lack of experience listening to recent EM recordings. I'm intigued by what you say and will be doing more listening. I think that the high cost of getting an orchestra into a studio for recording has resulted in a good thing for later repetoire - more recordings done live. Of course there is still editing, but if the recording is made from only two or three performances, it is necessarily limited. EM being done by smaller ensembles, I guess that the studio is still the main recording venue. And perhaps, as you say, the editing is overdone and leads to sterile performances. (Of course, this 'over' use of editing predates digital, witness Glenn Gould's recordings - which I still find thrilling). There is, too, the problem that many of us don't have the opportunity to hear much EM live. For us - other than our own playing - recordings are our only reference for what the music sounds like. You - and other professional performers - are not under that disadvantage. Ned -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
