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From: Roland van Gaalen <vangaalenusenet@gmail.com>
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Subject: To cull or not to cull: Bach / B Minor Mass / Leonhardt
Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2024 19:43:48 +0200
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This recording (which was more or less dismissed and hardly even 
mentioned here in the last twenty years or so) stays in or near the holy 
of holies in my living room; I will not banish it to the shoe boxes in 
the attic.

+ fine interpretation
+ excellent singing
+ excellent instrumental playing
+ excellent sound
+ definitely not boring
+ a pleasure to listen too

('subdued', 'sober', even 'puritannical'? what nonsense!)

JS Bach: B Minor Mass BWV 232
La Petite Bande with chorus and soloists
conductor: Gustav Leonhardt
Deutsche Harmonia Mundi (GD 77040)
recorded 1985
--
Roland van Gaalen
The Netherlands