Radio 3’s Private Passions is always insightful. The edition with Philippe Sands (here) shows that he too “delights in all manifestations of the Terpsichorean muse”(see Muzak)—Leonard Cohen, Michael Chance singing Erbarme Dich
(see also here, here, and here—and for an Arabian version, here), Bruno Walter conducting Mahler 9 (here, and here) in 1938, and Let’s pretend we’re bunny rabbits. Actually, the latter isn’t such a kitsch choice as its title suggests, but hey.
My posts A Nazi legacy and The Ratline introduce Sands’s harrowing film and books.
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To complement my post on the Matthew Passion, you MUST also listen to Michael Chance singing Erbarme Dich with Elizabeth Willcock!
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