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| | Teri Noel Towe's George Frideric Handel Pages: A Letter from Sir Malcolm Sargent in Defense of his Performing Edition ... |
 | | Because, thanks in major part to the patience, influence, and mentorship of Pablo Casals, William H. Scheide, and Rosalyn Tureck, I had long since eschewed the exclusionary attitude of the Performance Practice Puritans, I was thrilled by the serendipitous and fortuitous arrival of a gramophonic old friend. |
 | | I write of Sir Malcolm Sargent's 1955 recording of his, for lack of a better expression, "performing edition" of Israel in Egypt, which has recently been re-published on a single CD, in a very well engineered transfer, by Dutton Laboratories (catalogue no.: CDLX 7045). |
 | | Of course, the Sargent Israel in Egypt is not a recording that will satisfy those who are unswerving and unbending in their commitment to HIP dogma, but, nonetheless, I hope that those who normally would avoid this performance as though it were dioxin will give it at least a single, open-eared listening. |
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