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Welcome Barrett Reynolds, who enthused about CM and asked about...
>...what pieces comprise your absolute musical zenith?
A recent MCML exchange considered how remarkable it is that -- a bonus
for musical joys -- tastes change with stunning regularity. Just stand
still and wait, and even stuff you once couldn't hack is likely to reveal
its charms.
Normally, I'm 95% stuck on 20th century, non-vocal fare, so would be
liable to suggest:
Bela Bartok: Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta. (Am partial to
Bernstein/NYPhil, on Sony; also the Mravinsky/Leningrad PO, a live version
on Praga with a rather fresh ending).
But it's recently been wall-to-wall choral music for me. These four
pieces in particular:
J Haydn: Missa in angustiis, aka Nelson Mass (Pinnock, on Archiv)
Bartok: Cantata Profana (Boulez/Chicago SO on DG; also Robert Shaw/Atlantans,
on Telarc)
Vivaldi: Gloria in D Major, and JS Bach's Magnificat, also in D Maj
(Shaw/A..s again, Telarc)
Bert Bailey
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