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    BBC Radio 3 are repeating their round-the-clock experiment with a whole nine days of Bach this Christmas. One of the presenters is John Eliot Gardiner who has spent a year recording and researching the cantatas.
    In an article in BBC Music he states that Bach is the only composer with whom one could have spent a whole year. "The good manners of Mozart's style would grate with solitary confinement for a year (while) Beethoven would drive you round the twist."
    I thought this was a rather strange remark from a man who has himself recorded an acclaimed set of the symphonies and once described them as the raison d'etre of all musicians.
    If a year of Beethoven drives one "round the twist" then I (and most members of this website) must be certifiable.

    Michael

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    Originally posted by Michael:
    BBC Radio 3 are repeating their round-the-clock experiment with a whole nine days of Bach this Christmas. One of the presenters is John Eliot Gardiner who has spent a year recording and researching the cantatas.
    In an article in BBC Music he states that Bach is the only composer with whom one could have spent a whole year. "The good manners of Mozart's style would grate with solitary confinement for a year (while) Beethoven would drive you round the twist."
    I thought this was a rather strange remark from a man who has himself recorded an acclaimed set of the symphonies and once described them as the raison d'etre of all musicians.
    If a year of Beethoven drives one "round the twist" then I (and most members of this website) must be certifiable.

    Michael
    A year listening to Bach cantatas would drive me round the twist.

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      Originally posted by Rod:
      A year listening to Bach cantatas would drive me round the twist.


      By coincidence, I have been listening to Bach cantatas and to his Orgel-Buchlein steadily for a week or more now, and am not around the twist. Wanting more, actually.
      See my paintings and sculptures at Saatchiart.com. In the search box, choose Artist and enter Charles Zigmund.

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