> On Aug 30, 2011, at 1:38 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote:
>
>> We should be deeply grateful to Vivaldi for lightening up Bach's music.
Bach's fondness for Vivaldi -- that odious tweedler -- is a great puzzle to me.
There *is* some good Vivaldi -- the little solo cantatas, for example. But all the orchestral stuff is awful.