The Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists are renowned of their spectacular performances of Bach’s epic masterpiece, which they have toured extensively.
During their last tour (in Munich, Frankfurt, Lucerne, Aix-en-Provence and Paris) there was a stampede for tickets and they performed every night in full houses, to spellbound audiences.
This album is the culmination of the tour: it was recorded in an open session in London, and captures the special atmosphere of the concerts
It is presented in a 2-CD casebook and contains a booklet featuring original notes by John Eliot Gardiner translated in English, German and French.
“Gardiner’s second recording of the B minor Mass is a predictably exhilarating experience. The opening Kyrie, paced to perfection, leaves one amazed afresh…the chorus (which supplies the mostly fine soloists) is its usual splendid self.” (Sunday Times)
“there are special moments, especially in more homophonic writing like ‘Et incarnatus’, sung by the Monteverdi Choir with rapt concentration. The playing of the EBS, too, is outstanding.” (Early Music Today)
“Thirty years on, Gardiner’s take on the mass is if anything more exuberant, more joyful than his famous Archiv reading: all concerned seem to share this vision, especially the soloists who step forward from the choir. Textures are all crystal clear, part in thanks to a superbly natural, warm recording. Essential listening.” (Classical Music)
Tracklist:
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 – 1750)
CD1
01. Mass in B minor, BWV 232, Part I, Kyrie, Gloria: Kyrie eleison (Live)
02. Mass in B minor, BWV 232, Part I, Kyrie, Gloria: Christe eleison (Live)
03. Mass in B minor, BWV 232, Part I, Kyrie, Gloria: Kyrie eleison (Live)
04. Mass in B minor, BWV 232, Part I, Kyrie, Gloria: Gloria in excelsis (Live)
05. Mass in B minor, BWV 232, Part I, Kyrie, Gloria: Et in terra pax (Live)
06. Mass in B minor, BWV 232, Part I, Kyrie, Gloria: Laudamus te (Live)
07. Mass in B minor, BWV 232, Part I, Kyrie, Gloria: Gratias agimus tibi (Live)
08. Mass in B minor, BWV 232, Part I, Kyrie, Gloria: Dominus Deus (Live)
09. Mass in B minor, BWV 232, Part I, Kyrie, Gloria: Qui tollis peccata mundi (Live)
10. Mass in B minor, BWV 232, Part I, Kyrie, Gloria: Qui sedes ad dextram Patris (Live)
11. Mass in B minor, BWV 232, Part I, Kyrie, Gloria: Quoniam tu solus sanctus (Live)
12. Mass in B minor, BWV 232, Part I, Kyrie, Gloria: Cum Sancto Spiritu (Live)
CD2
01. Mass in B minor, BWV 232, Part II, Symbolum Nicenum: Credo in unum Deum (Live)
02. Mass in B minor, BWV 232, Part II, Symbolum Nicenum: Patrem omnipotentem (Live)
03. Mass in B minor, BWV 232, Part II, Symbolum Nicenum: Et in unum Dominum (Live)
04. Mass in B minor, BWV 232, Part II, Symbolum Nicenum: Et incarnatus est (Live)
05. Mass in B minor, BWV 232, Part II, Symbolum Nicenum: Crucifixus (Live)
06. Mass in B minor, BWV 232, Part II, Symbolum Nicenum: Et resurrexit (Live)
07. Mass in B minor, BWV 232, Part II, Symbolum Nicenum: Et in Spiritum sanctum Dominum (Live)
08. Mass in B minor, BWV 232, Part II, Symbolum Nicenum: Confiteor (Live)
09. Mass in B minor, BWV 232, Part II, Symbolum Nicenum: Et expecto (Live)
10. Mass in B minor, BWV 232, Part III, Sanctus: Sanctus (Live)
11. Mass in B minor, BWV 232, Part IV, Osanna, Benedictus, Agnus Dei, Dona nobis pacem: Osanna in excelsis (Live)
12. Mass in B minor, BWV 232, Part IV, Osanna, Benedictus, Agnus Dei, Dona nobis pacem: Benedictus (Live)
13. Mass in B minor, BWV 232, Part IV, Osanna, Benedictus, Agnus Dei, Dona nobis pacem: Osanna in excelsis (Live)
14. Mass in B minor, BWV 232, Part IV, Osanna, Benedictus, Agnus Dei, Dona nobis pacem: Agnus Dei (Live)
15. Mass in B minor, BWV 232, Part IV, Osanna, Benedictus, Agnus Dei, Dona nobis pacem: Dona nobis pacem (Live)
Personnel:
Hannah Morrison, soprano
Esther Brazil, mezzo
Meg Bragle, alto
Kate Symonds-Joy, alto
Peter Davoren, tenor
Nick Pritchard, tenor
Alex Ashworth, bass
David Shipley, bass
Monteverdi Choir
English Baroque Soloists
John Eliot Gardiner, conductor
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