A little series setting forth from minimalism and the ethereal counter-tenor voice:

• Minimalist versions of Purcell and Mozart: Klaus Nomi, Michael Nyman, Peter Greenaway

The genre-bending work of Orlando Gough:

• The exhilarating Buzz buzz buzz went the honey bee
• The perils of tourism, and The world encompassed

and a plaintive Buxtehude lament, with versions by Michael Chance and Andreas Scholl—in a post on performing Daoist hymns on the concert stage:

• Funeral music.

Which leads us to Bach:

• Agnus Dei
• Erbarme Dich.

For Beethoven as a precursor of minimalism, click here.