morning music

Saturday morning puttering around the house.  It's too early for much input.  The first part of any day should be reserved for silent perusal of the newspaper with coffee.  As one starts to move around a bit, sometimes it is o.k. to add some music to the mix.  One this glorious Saturday morning when I should be outside enjoying the near-perfect weather, I am misanthropically in the basement ironing quilt blocks (more on that in another post someday soon).

As background music I have chosen a disc from this incredible box set from Archiv (a sub-label of Deutsche Grammophon) featuring the Sacred Cantatas of JS Bach.  Perfect music for a Saturday morning sans the outside world.  The more I listen to Bach, I think he is the greatest composer ever.  Mozart is wittier, Beethoven can be more magnificent - there is much to recommend so many other composers, and I listen to many of them.  But Bach is the total package.