RE: GRRRRR... this is not music... (Ulog #38)
FOR TSE: You have got to be kidding me!! This stuff is crap!! And I'm not much into modern music either. I'm not as enthralled about classical as you are. I play what most people call "classical" a lot, but it's mostly the Romantic composers and the Impressionists. There's something a little too "mathematical" about the Baroque period for my tastes. (I don't know how else to describe it ... so that's how it came out.)
You don't want to know my "impression" of the thing you included here. (Oh, wait ... I already gave it to you.) Seriously, I couldn't play it. I couldn't even listen to it for more than 30 seconds. (SIXTEEN MINUTES OF THIS SH*T. Jesus, give me a break!!) I commend you for your fortitude. That paycheck must really matter. As someone whose life is the Classical / Baroque style, this must have been pure torture.
... But on the Baroque front, a lot of the 'modern' (non-specialist) interpretations from the last century (and even still in this century) have suffered from the Victorian and 20th lens of interpretation. Meaning that they dutifully played the notes in time, without realising that the score was a skeleton to be improvised and played in a rhetorical manner (like speech, with the accompanying geuestures in time and affect), so not the typewriter-like and dry approach that you might be thinking of!
It is much more heart on sleeve than the modern tradionalist approach!