To the wide spread fast-food audience, is sometimes a defect to be famous (or even TOO famous!), for just one single title, in our case "West side story", because Bernstein has composed many more musical works, extremely beautiful and / or extremely interesting for what regards the musical evolution of the past century, spacing from Classical to Jazz and even Pop-Rock! But his other works (maybe with the only exception of the opera "Candide") remain unknown to the large audiences... "Mass" is not exactly (not just) a mass, not just Classical, not just Gospel, or Avant-Garde, etc etc, is a lot of different "things", difficult to label (hence so interesting!), and deserves absolutely to be discovered, or better: RE-discovered. Practically, a perfect item for crazy people, those who frequent this blog ;-) It's a shame that "Mass" doesn't exist on any blog, I just noticed today, by case.... Anyway, this is an experiment, I'm not sure if this double album can be liked/loved/digested by you too; for me it's a great work, but I prefer for now to upload it with a 96 bitrate, as I often do in these uncertain cases. If some of you want the high rate, tell me and you will get the 320 version, ok? :-)
A friend of mine says that there was a double CD reissue around, totally unattractive and anonymous, nothing to do with the original big cardboard box edition , where also a 32 page book was included... Ahhh, these modern times...! And they call it "progress".....
Your COUNTESS :-)
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