Classical Music for Aficionados

The entire world neglects " early music ", to its own disadvantage .

I am very fortunate that the Twin Cities has a dozen first-class early music ensembles and, literally, a hundred choirs of which a dozen are world class .

IMO , a classical lover who knows not composers like Josquin des Prez, Du Fay, Gesualdo, Palestrina , Lasso, Gibbons, Byrd, Monteverdi and the mother of both lyricism and flow of musical line , Hildegard of Bingen,, is like a man who prefers McDonalds over a 3 star Michelin restaurant .

Well , perhaps I exaggerate a bit , but you get the gist of it .

And I beg the pardon of the Dutch and Belgians , Amsterdam, Brugge and Ghent continue to fly the flag .

I hear you jcazador . If you listened to my post that young Frenchwomen

playing German music on a Dutch organ sure didn’t miss anything .I had some of that Westminster stuff and was quite fond of it as well . I am a religious person and that aspect is more important to me than the technical side , not that it isn’t important .As I’m not a musician I don’t understand much of it in any event .

Keep up the good word and spread the news !