Marc Minkowski, Les Musiciens du Louvre — Geneva, 2018-12-13

Concert review, ★★★★½, Marc Minkowski / Les Musiciens du Louvre, Ana Maria Labin, Ambroisine Bré, Stanislas de Barbeyrac, Norman D. Patzke @ Victoria Hall, Geneva, 2018-12-13 — Mozart: Arrangement of Handel’s Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day, K.592; Mozart: Great Mass in C minor, K.427
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Early Encounters with Music

… I listened to all the shallow music that was broadcasted on the radio around 1960 (our radio was an old “steam radio” built into a book shelf). I also distinctly remember that on Sundays the radio always played classical music — typically chamber music, such as music for wind instruments by Mozart — and I hated that music — not because I disliked it, but …