Masaaki Suzuki: evaluation

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…Do you think there are any older recordings of Bach, say, of the B-Minor Mass or the passions that have held up? Before the Dutch movement for original instruments. Yes. I listened to, for example, the Mengelberg St. Matthew’s Passion a couple of times. That’s a very famous example in history. That is, of course, completely different, but probably at that time, it was a very beautiful performance, I think. That is quite romantic. The tempo is completely slow. I have no idea how it was accepted, but actually, it did work out at that time. This sense of value about the performance is changing all the time. I think we belong to a quite different generation, but at that time, it must have been very right and very stimulating to do the Bach music. How was it you decided to study early music in the Netherlands? Was it just you wanted to study music and then you learned of the movement? Or you went there because of the movement?…

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