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Re: GG: Gibbons and a certain English conservative privacy(?)
Joseph said:
>For you and anyone else interested, please give the Salisbury Pavan a good
>listen. Incredibly beautiful. It's always been such a solemn and revelatory
>piece for me.
As instructed, it is playing as I write. The Gramophone magazine, reviewing
the WTK I said:
"...All romantic potential is swept rudely
into oblivion....blinding clarity is coupled
with an autocracy that dares you to dissent..."
-- quoted in Sony catalogue "The GG Edition"
Thinking about this. These hushed and somewhat private performances of
Byrd/Gibbons: do they appeal so strongly because they *are* less
'autoctratic'....
Thanks for the continuing richness of this thread.
Rgds, Alun
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