J S Bach - Mass in B Minor, BWV 232
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Label: Challenge Classics
Cat No: CC72316
Format: Hybrid SACD
Number of Discs: 2
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 20th April 2009
Contents
Artists
La Petite BandeConductor
Sigiswald KuijkenAbout
The Credo was probably written between 1742 and 1745, but may have predated the Missa. The remaining parts (Sanctus, Osanna, Benedictus and Agnus Dei et Dona nobis pacem) were all added in the late 1740s. The Mass in B Minor did not assume its final form until Bach's last years. It may be that Bach wished it to be regarded as a monument to his skill, for it is a work based much upon his earlier music, adapted and refined to meet a sacred purpose.
The highly rated early music group La Petite Bande was founded in Belgium in 1972 by Sigiswald Kuijken at the request of the record company Deutsche Harmonia Mundi in order to record Lully's "Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme" with the conductor Gustav Leonhardt. Having initially concentrated mainly on French music, the orchestra's repertoire has expanded over the years to include music by the Italian masters and that of Bach, Handel, Gluck, Haydn and Mozart.
This recording of the B Minor Mass uses a version where the text is sung by single voices and a small scale choir.
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