Please allow a little maybe sarcastic, but nevertheless honest 
observation...
It seems to me that the next step, after the Froberger Baerenreiter edition, 
will be to publish some sort of jigsaw puzzle edition where the performer 
will receive a matrix-board and a million of little pieces (one-bar-long, 
let's imagine), from which he will have an enormous amount of possibilities 
of organising their version, sticking chosen versions of single bars onto 
the matrix.

Surely the edition in question is magnificent in many aspects, but virtually 
impossible to play from, and the price, especially in view of the number of 
volumes available, is truly enormous. (I've tried to pick and buy just a few 
volumes, but unfortunately for some reasons it seems that many works and the 
multitudes of their versions are spread across the whole edition in a way 
that choosing single volumes becomes impossible).

With five ossias, often more informative than suggestive, it's even hard to 
produce an origami copy serving as a personal performance edition for a 
recital. No wonder one rarely sees a harpsichordist playing from a printed 
score, not from a scotch-and-scissors-made pile of sheets, often in poor 
condition, which is a poor sight altogether...

That being said, it's surely a must, but rather for libraries perhaps?

Regards,

aleksander

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