PITCH Early

> > Has anyone heard the Early CD on PITCH (P-200202)?
> > anyone....?
> > any one ?
>
> I think there is a fair amount of disconnect on this
> list to go around.
>
>best, Johnny
>

I have enjoyed listening to it on several occasions. The performances
are certainly vibrant and lively, and I recommend the disc.

As far as the disconnect goes. . .I'm afraid I'm just lazy about posting
to the lists. Email lists just aren't the highest priority in my life.

Email lists are kind of like sex: you do them when you can, when you have
time, and then they're fun; but there's often just too much else going
on.

CB

Thank you, Chris. My point is that when actual music is done, cooked,
packaged and delivered, there is still an inertia of not changing a point of view.
And just as often there are charges of not experimenting, or "paper
temperament" readings, or pot luck. In the democracy of tuning, anything goes.

But I think from of a different perspective. I have to do a concert with
Bach's Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue in D minor. Do I go with the Werckmeister III
that is historically accurate and feels right, even though there is a
panapoly of different holy grails among moderns.

In other words, is there a better tuning than Werckmeister III for doing a
Brandenburg. No one has done them, to my knowledge (except unrecorded
performance initiated by Brad Lehman).

Audiences today cannot all tell that the music is in Werckmeister III, they
just like it. And yet, all the suggestions for alternatives craved by various
supporters are less "microtonally" different from 12-tone equal temperament.
Why would I want to change things?

best, Johnny