Is there a recommendable paper on this for holiday reading?
Via the very recommendable Strange Maps, Matthias Stolz at the Hamburg-based newsweekly Die Zeit has mapped data pulled from Germany's yellow pages to determine the density of three common puns for hair salons.
Or a destination in its own right, a recommendable eaterie which happens to have an art gallery attached?
Last time I looked, Bath was pretty disappointing when it came to recommendable restaurants.
Two eminently recommendable recordings of Gesualdo's music are the Concerto Italiano's collection of madrigals, "O dolorosa gioia"; and the Hilliard Ensemble's two-CD set of the Responsoria (also called "Tenebrae"), which is excerpted at the top of this post.
A common observation, about both the Internet dating world and the world at large, is that there is an apparent surplus of available women, especially in their thirties and beyond, and a shortage of recommendable men.
It is unlikely that any Bach collector isn't well covered in these works, but this disc is eminently recommendable to specialists and nonspecialists alike.
Oh, yes, the performance: with the veteran Stephen Cleobury at the helm, it is a good one, eminently recommendable to anyone on board with period instruments and with choirs of men and boys.
