Re: music recommendation

Moosebumps goes:

>I guess for now I am looking for
>more mainstream stuff, and it helps if I can listen to the sound samples
>somewhere.  I have found that that's a great way to buy music.

You need to get to your local library and plunder their CD resources,
and if they don't have much insist the acquire some. I've been working
my way through my library's collection, and for maybe 50c a time you
can afford to be adventurous. Right now I'm borrowing a Gregorian
Requiem (on a French label) and Salve Regina by the Benedictine Monks
of the Abbey of Saint-Maurice & Saint-Maur, Clervaux, on Philips. I've
already been through the Bach cantatas (not all of them, obviously),
Monteverdi, Mozart Mass in C Maj and Vespers, blah blah. 

Library CD collections really are the greatest for exploration of
music, and not just choral. And if you pester them to acquire good
music, it'll be there for the next person who comes along looking to
expand their horizons. Whoever asled my library to buy in Klezmer,
Astor Piazzola, Elvis Costello's Juliet Letters and those Bulgarian
women who were referred to has my thanks, though I'll never know who
they are. 

 
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AH