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Not listening to enough Bach? The day after Easter, John Eliot Gardiner leads a 9 hour
Bach Marathon at Royal Albert Hall, starting at 1p with the motet
Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied & concluding with a 7:30p performance of the Mass in B Minor. Speakers & various instrumental soloists are also
scheduled throughout the day. It seems to be
one ticket for the entire event.
Sir Gardiner discusses conducting Bach on a
recent edition of
Front Row on BBC Radio 4. He refers to period performers who swell notes as "vulgar bulgers."
2 comments:
If a performing ensemble named The Vulgar Bulgers is not immediately formed, I will lose whatever faith I have in humanity.
Yes! Specialists in inappropriate performances of early music on period instruments. A google search turns up "Vulgar Bulgars", but that's not at all the same thing.
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