From: kishik@parkcity.ne.jp   
      
   "Ping Kuo"  wrote in message   
   news:171220050151537731%removeantispam*pkuo@earthlink.net...   
   > In article <40hsk6F19u8t4U1@individual.net>, Manbow Papa   
   >  wrote:   
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   >> "Chris Kern"  wrote in message   
   >> news:tm47q1pf5vappr7coaibuf3dtvquej1ofn@4ax.com...   
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   >> > 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.   
   >   
   > better than berliner phil.?  or Vienna?   
      
   You are comparing two different things. Like fine art vs. commercial   
   art. Bach Collegium never perform Richard Strauss or even Beethoven.   
      
   >   
   >> But in Japan, I think Bach isn't as popular as Mozart, Beethoven,   
      
   I'm a Bach craze. ^_^   
      
   >   
   > favor Bach short piece, Cello #1, but then, I am bias toward YoYo Ma.   
      
   Try Bach's "Chromatic Fantasy & Fugue" performed by Andras Schiff   
   if you also like piano. It sounds popular, poetic and of virtuosity.   
      
   >   
   >> 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.   
   >   
   > I though that OP rock fiddle arrangement was done by an all girls group   
   > ("Bonds"?) long before Area 88 come out?  when the first time I heard   
   > the Area 88 OP I thought that was just down right familiar.   
      
   Right.   
      
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