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Bach: Mass in B Minor
Anke Vondung, Tobias Berndt, Carolyn Sampson
Bach: Mass in B Minor
Genres: Opera & Classical Vocal, Classical
 
The Mass in B minor by Johann Sebastian Bach is one of the central sacred vocal compositions in the history of music. Hans- Christoph Rademann has now devoted his first CD as director of the Internationale Bachakademie Stu...  more »

     
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All Artists: Anke Vondung, Tobias Berndt, Carolyn Sampson, Daniel Johannsen
Title: Bach: Mass in B Minor
Members Wishing: 1
Total Copies: 0
Label: Carus-Verlag
Release Date: 9/11/2015
Genres: Opera & Classical Vocal, Classical
Styles: Vocal Non-Opera, Masses
Number of Discs: 2
SwapaCD Credits: 2

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The Mass in B minor by Johann Sebastian Bach is one of the central sacred vocal compositions in the history of music. Hans- Christoph Rademann has now devoted his first CD as director of the Internationale Bachakademie Stuttgart to this outstanding work and, together with the Gaechinger Kantorei Stuttgart and the Freiburger Barockorchester as well as renowned soloists in the field of historically informed performance practice, has set new artistic standards.

Although the Mass in B minor is one of Johann Sebastian Bach's most frequently performed vocal works, it continues to present performers and scientists with new enigmas and problems. This applies not only to the still unanswered question of why Bach composed but never performed this work, but also continues to the core of the musical text. Until his death, Bach himself repeatedly revised his Opus ultimum without ever leaving a final version. Directly after his death, the original manuscript was massively changed by his son Carl Philipp Emanuel; changes which, until today, pose many questions to researchers.

The present new recording rigorously follows - in the Kyrie and Gloria - Bach's own meticulously configured "Dresdner Stimmen" [Dresden parts] and is thereby based, for the first time, exclusively on the musical text that emanated from Johann Sebastian Bach's pen. Furthermore, additional movements with marked deviations from today's familiar version have been made accessible as variants in the bonus material. The recording is based upon the new edition by the renowned Bach and Mozart scholar Ulrich Leisinger in cooperation with the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin and the Bach-Archiv Leipzig, who also prepared the introduction in the CD booklet.