Bernard Chasan ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

>Tim Horwood wrote:
>
>>Does anybody else listen to Haydn? I have been recently listening to such
>>works as The Creation and some of the symphonies (45, 92, 101).  Does
>>anybody have any favourite recordings or books they can recommend not
>>necessarily limited to the works above?
>
>There is incredible richness here.  Try the great masses - I particularly
>like the Nelson Mass if only because I sang in it a quarter of a century
>ago.

Oddly enough it was the main work in the first choral society concert I
ever sang in.  But that was more like 35 (or 6, gulp!) years ago.

Actually, I still think it's the greatest of them all - and HCRL sems to
agree, so who am I to dissent?

deryk barker
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