On 13.01.2018 17:56, David van Ooijen wrote:
Part of the attraction of the Vallet Quartets is that you don't need
four lutenists to have a good time.
Of course not - anything from 2 to 4 should work.
Neither do you have to play all the
notes correctly; an overly sanitised version with all dissonances
polished away will make for a lot less interesting music.
Errors are not interesting - they are errors and nothing else.
Of course, the question what to change is rather difficult. Parallel seconds
are plain nonsense, but a few false relations should be OK.
And it's
certainly not as bizarre as Besard. One should restrain oneself in the
editing process, ideally leaving options open for every possible
performance; after all, sometimes you need a little extra spice and at
other times you will want it more blandly.
Spice? We are not cooking music here :)
Rainer
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