THE BACHS
Sir,-Your foothote to H. H. Fountain’s letter is disillusioning. Does the NBS always rely on the labels of gramophone records for its musical knowledge? Nothing the announcers (with one or two exceptions) can say or do surprises me any* longer, but I still nurtured a vague notion that on the programme arranging staff there might be people who, without prompting from the titles of the records themselves, could distinguish one Bach from another. And especially in _a programme specificaliy entitled "Music by Bach"! But to them also it now appears all Bachs are alike. The NBS goes on to say that it has only three excerpts from the B Minor Mass.
Why? Maybe the complete work is not available in New Zealand now (though I am inclined to doubt that too), but a full and fine recording was certainly made some years ago, Since then the NBS has obtained from overseas probably many thousands of records-good, bad and in-excusable-and it certainly should not have overlooked such an outstanding work as this.
A. M.
FINDLAY
(Auckland), EE
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 11, Issue 276, 6 October 1944, Page 5
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