>If Beethoven were alive >today and could hear (:)), would he have recognised his >compositions as >played
I'm very sure he would have recognised the pieces but he might have thought people had a very funny way of playing them. Though I did once hear a recording of piece by Palestrina that I had actually sung myself and failed to recognise it. This was the choir of the Sistine Chapel around 1935 with masses of vibrato, poor tuning in general and rubato all over the shop. I also once heard a local choir singing three pieces - one by Haydn, one by Bruckner and one by Britten, and I couldn't tell which was which. And I once failed to recognise that a rock band had played Little Wing in one of their sets. But I don't think it's this kind of gross inaccuracy that we're talking about. CB To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
