WHICH BACH?
Sir-In a recent "Things to Come" paragraph you referred to a previous letter of mine about Bach’s "Mass in B Minor," and you called attention to a programme from 3YL for July 22. By this programme 3YL has only partly answered me. You wouldn’t say that seven minutes of an extract from that Mass was very generous, would you? If 3YA could broadcast Beethoven’s "Mass in D" in two sections a little while ago, surely the same treatment could be given this one of Bach's. Furthermore, the "Magnificat" you refer to is not by J. S. Bach but by his son Carl, and the "Sinfonia in B Flat" in the same programme is by his other son, Christian. I pointed this out to 3YL a few weeks ago, and suggested that the programme should be_ entitled "Music by the Bachs" rather than "Music by Bach." but evidently 3YL
knows best.-
Brighton).
H. H.
FOUNTAIN
(New
[The Music Department of the NBS replies ‘""There are only three excerpts from Bach’s Mass ‘in B Minor: available on two recordings in the NBS libraries. There is no recording of the complete work available in New Zealand as in the case with certain other Masses. The Magnificat referred to by our correspondent is simply labelled Bach, with no initials. The Sinfonia in B Flat Major is by Johann Christian Bach, another son of Johann Sebastian Bach, and the record label in this instance gives no initials either.]
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 11, Issue 273, 15 September 1944, Page 7
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