What are you listening to?

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More wonderful music from a composer who could write very well for wind instruments....


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JEG... Bach's Christmas Cantatas... don't ask me why, it just seemed like a good idea at the time.
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Jared wrote:JEG... Bach's Christmas Cantatas... don't ask me why, it just seemed like a good idea at the time.
I listened to the Oratorio yesterday and the day before too, I didn't want to let on, it seems inappropriate at this time of year, they interrupted my Rossini binge too. :)
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Seán wrote:
Jared wrote:JEG... Bach's Christmas Cantatas... don't ask me why, it just seemed like a good idea at the time.
I listened to the Oratorio yesterday and the day before too, I didn't want to let on, it seems inappropriate at this time of year, they interrupted my Rossini binge too. :)
well, our Fergus sent me a Bach calendar, so that I could listen to the right cantatas at the appropriate time of the year... not that i've ever paid the heed to it that I should...
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Jared wrote:
Seán wrote:
Jared wrote:JEG... Bach's Christmas Cantatas... don't ask me why, it just seemed like a good idea at the time.
I listened to the Oratorio yesterday and the day before too, I didn't want to let on, it seems inappropriate at this time of year, they interrupted my Rossini binge too. :)
well, our Fergus sent me a Bach calendar, so that I could listen to the right cantatas at the appropriate time of the year... not that i've ever paid the heed to it that I should...
What a lovely idea.
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Fergus, I may have said this before, but this is an incredibly beautiful disk... becoming one of my Renaissance faves...
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Fergus, I may have said this before, but this is an incredibly beautiful disk... becoming one of my Renaissance faves...

Simon will be pleased with that!
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A very early CD recording from 1986 which features Monica Huggett....


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fergus wrote:
Jared wrote:Image

Fergus, I may have said this before, but this is an incredibly beautiful disk... becoming one of my Renaissance faves...

Simon will be pleased with that!
LOL, Simon is already thinking he should buy this!
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LOL, Simon is already thinking he should buy this!

And here was me thinking that, along with the complete works of JS BAch and Buxtehude, the works of Sweelinck would be falling off your burgeoning shelves LOL!!!
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