BACH’S CHORAL MUSIC
Sir--I have been listening to the classical music broadcast by the YA and subsidiary stations for four years, and I do not remember ever having heard the great Mass in B Minor by Bach nor any extracts from it. I would have thought that 3YL when giving half an hour of Bach’s music for three evenings last week would have included something from the Mass in B Minor, which is assuredly the noblest music ever composed. You may remember that when you asked representative musicians for their lists of 20 records for a desert island sojourn, two of them headed their lists with this’ work, and yet it is conspicuous by its absence from the programmes in The Listener. We get plenty of the inferior ‘masses of Mozart, Verdi and Faure, and nothing by the greatest master of them all.-H. H. FOUNTAIN (New Brighton).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 10, Issue 260, 16 June 1944, Page 2
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147BACH’S CHORAL MUSIC New Zealand Listener, Volume 10, Issue 260, 16 June 1944, Page 2
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