mem@sii.UUCP (Mark Mallett) (12/14/83)
b I imagine that a discussion of classical music favourites could get pretty long (if anybody showed any interest, that is), since everybody seems to have some favorite (i don't care how i spell it) classical piece that is different from everyone else's classical selection. This of course being due to the large amount of classical music that isn't well known, especially compared to rock'n'pop music. Myself? well now... rather than dealing with favorites qua favorites, I'll suggest "Carmina Burana". This is a set of 12th century monkish manuscripts discovered in the 1800s and set to music by Carl Orff. The result is a bunch of short sort-of-choral pieces of different tones and subjects. The recording I have is DG 139362; (sorry, DG = Deutsche Grammophon), by the "Chor und orchester der deutschen oper berlin", conducted by Eugen Fochum. Mark Mallett decvax!sii!mem
mem@sii.UUCP (Mark Mallett) (12/14/83)
b Whoops... bad typing in the previous article. The name of the conductor is "Eugen Jochum", not "Fochum". -mm-