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In Reply to: RE: Asylum recommendations are more reliable than Penguin, Gramophone, etc., guides posted by Jay Buridan on December 29, 2016 at 14:19:17
Asylum posters are not beholden to the industry in a way that might induce corruption (e.g., good reviews in exchange for ad revenue). I'm not saying that anything like that has necessarily happened with the likes of Gramophone, Fanfare, etc. But OTOH, I wouldn't be entirely surprised if something like that did come to light too.
In addition, we all wear our biases on our respective sleeves here (at least I know I do - LOL!), so it's easier to tell what you're getting with AA posts in comparison to Gramophone reviewers who like to maintain their pretense of objectivity. Not to mention the well-known chauvinism of the Brits, known and loved the world over - it's part of their charm! ;-)
(And not to mention examples of reviews like those of disgraced Gramophone critic Bryce Morrison during the Joyce Hatto scandal. Morrison, scandalously, continues to write for that rag, even after being caught describing the same set of performances in completely different ways, depending on whether or not he thought these performances were by Joyce Hatto - in which case they were described in rapturous terms which he scrupulously withheld from the actual originator of the performances, Ingrid Haebler.)
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Us Brits are not chauvinistic. We are right.
Now do I 'ave to come round and give you a quick slap round yer lug'oles?
That attest to the veracity of your words. I learned the hard (and expensive) way that the music guides are not to be trusted. Fortunately, I never fell for HIP accounts of 18-19th century music, although I do like some HIP performances, e.g., John Eliot Gardiner's 1980s Bach edition and his Haydn masses (YMMV.)
I wish I had the time and energy to sell my mediocre CDs on eBay. It would take a lifetime, though.
Nobody here has BIASES, do they?
Edits: 12/29/16
I have to agree with that. All of it.
(Your being on the right side of things, I mean.) ;-)
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