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In Reply to: RE: I think this recording doesn't qualify as HIP... posted by Jay Buridan on May 04, 2017 at 06:46:11
I hope Chris will forgive me for jumping in but of course this recording is HIP. The players are the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Their name should give the game away but if not I would explain that they are one of the world's foremost " original instrument" orchestras - please see the link. So you are hearing gut strings, wood flutes, low pitch (probably between A = 415 and 430 for these pieces). Also conducted by Gustav Leonhardt, one of the pioneers of performance on instruments appropriate to the work's era. The soloist , Anner Bylsma is also famed for his period instrument performances. It is on Erato Veritas ( Warners renaming of Virgin Veritas), a label devoted to HIP performances. So as far as HIP is concerned this disc scores 100%.Nothing to stop HIP performances sounding sweet, save that it will be in a different way to one using steel strings and constant vibrato.
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They even retain their HIP characteristics, such as the nearly complete exclusion of string vibrato, when conducted by the likes of Jurowski and other more mainstream (i.e., non-specialist) conductors. Their approach to vibrato continues even into the early Romantic period, as in their absurd Mendelssohn recording with Pouty Lips (Alina Ibragimova) wherein she (perhaps surprisingly) uses vibrato in the solo part, while they keep a lid on it in their parts. As I say, simply absurd!
Though for Romantic composers, it's intolerable.
Even for Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, etc., I dislike HIP. For example, I prefer Dorati's Haydn.
. . . just in case there's any further backsliding! ;-)
Just to be safe :)
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