Christina Landshamer, Anke Vondung, Kenneth Tarver, Andreas Wolf, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Concerto Köln, Peter Dijkstra - Bach: Mass in B Minor, BWV 232 (2016) [Hi-Res]

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01. JS Bach Mass in B Minor, BWV 232 Kyrie eleison (Chorus)
02. JS Bach Mass in B Minor, BWV 232 Christe eleison (Soprano 1 and 2)
03. JS Bach Mass in B Minor, BWV 232 Kyrie eleison (Chorus)
04. JS Bach Mass in B Minor, BWV 232 Gloria in excelsis Deo (Chorus)
05. JS Bach Mass in B Minor, BWV 232 Et in terra pax (Chorus)
06. JS Bach Mass in B Minor, BWV 232 Laudamus te (Soprano 2)
07. JS Bach Mass in B Minor, BWV 232 Gratias agimus tibi (Chorus)
08. JS Bach Mass in B Minor, BWV 232 Domine Deus (Soprano 1, Tenor)
09. JS Bach Mass in B Minor, BWV 232 Qui tollis peccata mundi (Chorus)
10. JS Bach Mass in B Minor, BWV 232 Qui sedes ad dextram Patris (Alto)
11. JS Bach Mass in B Minor, BWV 232 Quoniam tu solus Sanctus (Bass)
12. JS Bach Mass in B Minor, BWV 232 Cum Sancto Spiritu (Chorus)
13. JS Bach Mass in B Minor, BWV 232 Credo in unum Deum (Chorus)
14. JS Bach Mass in B Minor, BWV 232 Patrem omnipotentem (Chorus)
15. JS Bach Mass in B Minor, BWV 232 Et in unum Dominum (Soprano 1, Alto)
16. JS Bach Mass in B Minor, BWV 232 Et incarnatus est (Chorus)
17. JS Bach Mass in B Minor, BWV 232 Crucifixus (Chorus)
18. JS Bach Mass in B Minor, BWV 232 Et resurrexit (Chorus)
19. JS Bach Mass in B Minor, BWV 232 Et in Spiritum Sanctum Dominum (Bass)
20. JS Bach Mass in B Minor, BWV 232 Confiteor unum baptisma (Chorus)
21. JS Bach Mass in B Minor, BWV 232 Et expecto resurrectionem mortuorum (Chorus)
22. JS Bach Mass in B Minor, BWV 232 Et expecto resurrectionem mortuorum Vivace e allegro (Chorus)
23. JS Bach Mass in B Minor, BWV 232 Sanctus (Chorus)
24. JS Bach Mass in B Minor, BWV 232 Pleni sunt coeli (Chorus)
25. JS Bach Mass in B Minor, BWV 232 Osanna (Double Chorus)
26. JS Bach Mass in B Minor, BWV 232 Benedictus (Tenor)
27. JS Bach Mass in B Minor, BWV 232 Osanna da capo (Double Chorus)
28. JS Bach Mass in B Minor, BWV 232 Agnus Dei (Alto)
29. JS Bach Mass in B Minor, BWV 232 Dona nobis pacem (Double Chorus)



Nearly 70 years after the death of Johann Sebastian Bach, the Swiss publis- her Hans Georg Nägeli undertook the daring task of preparing the manuscript score of the B minor Mass for publication. In 1818, to mark the occasion, the Leipzig Allgemeine Musikalische Zeitung described the Mass as “the Greatest Musical Work of All Times and All People.” This fulsome formulation was pri- marily a sales strategy: Nägeli was wooing subscribers for a composition that, until then, had been noticed only by a small number of cognoscenti. The an- nouncement does sound rather pompous to our ears today, but the Swiss pu- blisher’s judgement was a sound one. From the mid-19th century onwards, the Mass in B minor gradually became a xed part of the repertoire for all major choirs, and is now an integral part of the worldwide concert business. Howe- ver, unsolved questions incidental to this unusual work and its success story continue to preoccupy musicologists to this day: Why is an overall title page missing from the original manuscript, with its four individual folders? Were the four different sections, with their different orchestration, ever conceived as a single and cohesive mass? Was the work composed for any special occasion? And was a performance of the monumental mass even conceivable in around 1750? A look at the history of the music and its structure can bring us one step closer to possible answers.

Christina Landshamer, soprano
Anke Vondung, mezzo-soprano
Kenneth Traver, tenor
Andreas Wolf, bass
Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Concerto Koln
Peter Dijkstra, conductor

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