I think it is you who cannot distinguish fact from fiction. The liner notes
to Satoh's CD are a mishmash of known facts and pure fiction and it is far
from
obvious what is all his imagination and conjecture and what is actually
true. Some people have certainly been mislead into thinking that it is an
accurate account of De Visee's life. It does nothing to enhance his
performance or our understanding of the music.
Satoh is an influential figure in the lute world and I think he should be a
bit more careful about putting into circulation information which could be
regarded as deliberately misleading.
Monica
----- Original Message -----
From: "David van Ooijen" <[email protected]>
Cc: "Lute List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, February 28, 2014 4:03 PM
Subject: [LUTE] Re: Bartolotti's continuo treatise
Monica wrote:
>>
In the liner notes to his recent CD Toyohiko Satoh claimed that De
Visee was Portuguese and came from a small town called Viseu near
Coimbra. This is pure fiction - there is no evidence at all that this
was so.
<<
Utterly, completely and absolutely OT. But as Monica still appears to
have trouble distinguishing fact from fiction in her reading, I think
it's nice to help her by quoting myself from an earlier e-mail about
this same utterly, completely and absolutely OT topic:
"Toyohiko is speculating on how De Visee's retirement from public life
might have influenced his compositions for Baroque lute, and links that
to his own position in life and to his interpretations of De Visee's
music. I quote from the liner notes of the CD: "This is all my
imagination and conjecture [...] it was this imagination that drove me
to perform the pieces ..." In other words, the story in the CD-booklet
is about motivation, not about historical facts."
I could also have quoted Gerschwin's "It Ain't Necessarily So".
David - back to lurking-mode
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