From: kishik@parkcity.ne.jp   
      
   "Chris Kern"  wrote in message news:tm47q   
   pf5vappr7coaibuf3dtvquej1ofn@4ax.com...   
   > On Sun, 11 Dec 2005 16:17:36 +0900, "Manbow Papa"   
   >  posted the following:   
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   >>   
   >>"Ping Kuo"  wrote in message   
   >>news:101220052008288029%removeantispam*pkuo@earthlink.net...   
   >>> In article <4000fnF17ao2aU1@individual.net>, Manbow Papa   
   >>>  wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> Today, NHK reported a huge classic music boom that "Nodame   
   >>>> Cantabile" made. This is the third time I heard about the significant   
   >>>> influence of the manga on the boom.   
   >>>   
   >>> I did notice that my own classic listening increase a bit with Nodame,   
   >>> but since I had always been listening to Jazz and BGM of various movies   
   >>> and anime it is not that big a stretch. (pretty much the same thing.)   
   >>> I still can not listen to a whole piece in its entirety, but I can   
   >>> listen to famous one in bits and pieces or in short stretch, like Ride   
   >>> of the Valkyries from Apocalype Now, but not the whole Wagner piece.   
   >>   
   >>I have an LP box set of "Ring" conducted by Karl Boehm. It   
   >>needs 13.5 hours to play entirely, you know. Nobody can   
   >>regularly listen to the musical drama thoroughly. ^_^;   
   >   
   > I always wonder how well Bach Collegium Japan (conducted by Masaaki   
   > Suzuki) CDs sell in Japan.  Among Bach fans worldwide, the Suzuki   
   > recordings are considered to be very good, even the best, but I wonder   
   > if there's much interest domestically.   
      
   Although I don't know how many CDs of the group sold in Japan,   
   I believe they got quite high reputaion domestically. I myself   
   has several CD titles of them released by BIS and other labels.   
   I think their "Johannespasion" is as good as Karl Richter's   
   old recording by ARCHIV. They are not only good as an orchestra,   
   but also some members of them are good as soloist. Suzuki Hidemi's   
   cello, for example. BIS will likely end up releasing a complete set of   
   Bach's Kantate of their performance.   
      
   But in Japan, I think Bach isn't as popular as Mozart, Beethoven,   
   Brahms etc even though I sometimes hear fragments of Bach's music,   
   prelude #1 from Well-tempered clavier vol.1 and "Jesu, joy of man's   
   desiring" from Kantate #147 for instance, everywhere. Most prominent   
   example of Bach's music in anime is "Area 88" of which OP featured   
   a fiddle arrangement of his fugue for organ.   
      
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