Let’s see what I can find in the music library today…

(of course, I meant that baroque music sounded too tame on most recordings in the past than today, thus we need more lively Haydn as well)

And indeed, there’s also a lot of prejudice at work in music. Even though I know so little of Schumann’s works (too much music, too little time — but I’m getting there!) I already heard quite a lot about lack of skill in his orchestration (second probably only to Chopin).

Still, whether it’s Haydn or Vivaldi or later music, there’s more to be learned from the scores themselves than from past or current performers. With Haydn and Schumann, the accrued misconceptions about them and their work is actually destructive, where with Brahms its probably more a matter of there being a bit of complacency. Still, the scores have so much to teach us, and it’s so much better to read them without prejudice…… Hopefully the best Beethoven and Haydn and Schumann and Mahler all await in generations to come….

Many thanks!
Ken