“To strip human nature until its divine attributes are made clear, to inform ordinary activities with spiritual fervor, to give wings of eternity to that which is most ephemeral; to make divine things human and human things divine; such is Bach, the greatest and purest moment in music of all time.” – Pablo Casals
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J.S. Bach – Cantata BWV 191 Gloria in excelsis Deo | 1 Chorus (J. S. Bach Foundation)
First movement (chorus) from cantata BWV 191 From the protestant church Trogen in Switzerland Choir and Orchestra of the J. S. Bach Foundation – Rudolf Lutz – conductor
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J.S. Bach ~ Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Aria
Photo credit: By Elias van Nijmegen (Digitized image, RKD) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Dispatches from the Asylum 