THE BACHS
Sir-Like your correspondent A. M. Finlay, I, too, was disappointed at the supplied footnote in a recent correspondence column dealing with J. S. Bach’s great Mass in B Minor. I had always taken it for granted — wrongly, it now appears-that our NBS acquired a copy of all the great recorded works as they
were issued by the companies. The B Minor Mass, recorded by H.M.V. on 17 records, has been listed in the catalogues for some years, and is still available to order, according to inquiries I have made from dealers. This beautiful work is sung by Margaret Balfour, Elisabeth Schumann, Friedrich Schorr and Walter Widdop, with the Philharmonic Choir and the London Symphony Orchestra. Is it too much to hope that our NBS, which must spend hundreds of pounds annually on records which are forgotten before six months have passed, will yet come to light with the £7 or £8 needed to secure Bach’s greatest work before it is
withdrawn from the catalogues?-
H. R.
L.
BLANKS
(Auckland).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 11, Issue 279, 27 October 1944, Page 7
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