Minkowski as preferable to Kuijken? In Bach’s music? Not in Handel’s music, but in Bach? It is hard to accept, Masolino, especially when I have listened to some excerpts on the web.
Kuijken is certainly in my shopping cart and not simply as a new Junghänel.
The problem for me is HOW different the Kuijken can be from the Junghänel, when the Minkowski is already SO different from the Junghänel (or the Veldhoven).

On the other hand, I don't see why it is not possible to prefer Minkowski to Kuijken in Bach (with the exception of violin playing I suppose

) if the former can (and did) deliver a radically new, beautiful and valid interpretation of his music. To put it more bluntly, more experience doesn't necessarily equate more artistic insight, and I must say I was truly surprised by Minkowski's refreshing approach listening to his recording of the b minor mass.