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Biber’s just in time

Biber’s just in time

From the Lebrecht Album of the Week:

Just Biber (Channel Classics/Outhere Music)

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If you had told me at the start of the week that I’d still be listening to Biber on Friday, my response would have been dusty and unprintable. Middle-European music before Johann Sebastian Bach has about as much interest for me as a squeezed-out tube of toothpaste…

Read on here.

 There are a couple of good jokes in the music and the album title appears to refer to an obscure Canadian singer, lately occluded by political events in his country.

En francais ici.

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