Tyler Cowen: evaluation

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…Hello, everyone, and welcome back to Conversations with Tyler. Today I’m here in New York City with Masaaki Suzuki. Masaaki Suzuki is one of the greatest musical creators and producers of our time. He has recorded the entire set of Bach sacred cantatas, which in my collection amounts to, I think, 55 compact discs. He has recorded all of the secular cantatas. These are generally acknowledged to be the most important and best recordings of Bach’s cantata music ever. He is recording the complete organ music of Bach, so he also is a world-class organist, and he is recording the complete harpsichord music of Bach, works that are commonly acknowledged to be in the top tier. There’s simply no one else I know of with this kind of record of production and quality and dedication and inspiration. He also has recorded a good deal of Mozart, Handel, and many other 18th-century composers. He founded the Bach Collegium Japan in 1990. He also teaches as a professor at Yale University and does many other things as well. Masaaki Suzuki, welcome. Thank you for invitation. It’s a really great pleasure to come here.…

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