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From: Roland van Gaalen <vangaalenusenet@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: To cull or not to cull: Bach / B Minor Mass / Leonhardt
Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2024 19:54:31 +0200
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On 20/10/2024 19:43, Roland van Gaalen wrote:
> 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

+ a pleasure to listen to, 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