Joyce Hatto .....All a sham?

"not that it isn't fun to read a rec.music.classical.recordings thread that is basically identical to a ILM flamewar thread at a 'higher' level of discourse (gets really good around page four)"

I ws thinking of saying something 'if you think ILM is bad then you oughta read this!' :-)

But actually the couple of classical boards I'm on (linked by Henry above) aren't so bad (r3ok. board ws only created last week). That board has only the odd - "OMG its all decadence post Schoenberg!!" - type poster.

I don't know if 'professionals' ever claim they can distinguish subtle nuances in that way. Some (and only some), like Max Harrison (who used to write for wire a few years ago) ws able to listen to a new recording of a work to tell if the performer is giving it a new 'view', then communicate as to whether they think that is something worth seeing, I suppose, while doing the whole compare/contrast with previous recordings from years ago. But yeah the market doesn't need to be so saturated with performances on CD so that you can read someone doing all this work in the first place.

But the classical recording industry can't face recording some of today's composers and ensembles - that gets a big fat NO!