Mike Leghorn asks:

>I have a question: what is the big deal about Bach's Mass in B minor?
>Why (according to the liner notes in my Eliot Gardiner recording) in
>1817 did Swiss critic Hans-Georg Nageli acclaim the piece as the "greatest
>work of music of all ages and of all peoples"?  (I doubt that he knew
>the music of "all peoples".) I can't seem to get into this piece.  I
>find it boring.  Is my recording faulty?  Should I get my hearing checked?

Mike, it obviously isn't your cup of tea.  I find the Mass extremely
moving and not boring at all.  Your hearing is okay and your recording
is not faulty.  You are simply not the person Bach wrote his Mass for.
And that's okay.

Robert