Sunday evening I basked once again in the comfortable arms of Handel's Il trionfo del tempo e del disinganno (Emmanuelle Haïm, Natalie Dessay, et al). Undemanding music, uncomplicated, and quite entrancing. A good way to spend 2 1/2 hours! And I also enjoyed Handel's contemporary, Johann Sebastian in the Trauer-Ode cantata (BWV 198) in Pierre Pierlot's excellent new recording with the Ricercar Consort. While I am going off one-per-part Bach choruses, it does work well in some of the cantatas, as here.