Employing faster tempos and a smaller number of performers than were then the norm, Harnoncourt unveiled a Bach of dancing rhythms and bright. But sometimes Naxos carries the whole budget thing a little too far. Harnoncourt’s 1968 version of the Mass in B minor (reissued on Teldec in 1994) was the first recording of that work to use period instruments and to adopt a historically ‘authentic’ approach. There is a now-old saw that holds that when the recording era began Bach was performed slowly and Wagn. To oversimplify matters, let’s begin by pointing out that performance styles have changed in the past century. Stream songs including 'Mass in B Minor, BWV 232: Kyrie eleison', 'Mass in B Minor, BWV 232: Christe eleison' and more. Answer (1 of 5): A wonderful question which, I’d argue, admits of no single answer. It's one of several instances in the music of Johann Sebastian Bach in which a piece is. At the budget price, this may be a good, basic Mass in B minor for those new to Bach's music it is one of the cornerstones of his output, containing some of his most intricate contrapuntal creations but maintaining a tone that is by turns monumental and joyful. Bach: Mass in B Minor, BWV 232 by Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists & John Eliot Gardiner on Apple Music. The Mass in B minor is as lofty in design, scope and expression as anything written by the hand of man. Conductor Helmut Müller-Brühl, he of the multiple umlauts that have tested the mettle of many a classical disc jockey, leads an ensemble situated squarely in the center of the German Bach tradition when it comes to overall style the Dresden Chamber Choir has a vigorous but perfectly blended sound.
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The sound is not big, but it is dense and full in a way that suits Bach's choral music satisfyingly. And so it does, both in the big trumpet-driven choruses that are the glory of the B minor mass and in the glittering solo and duet arias. "Principles of historical performance-practice" applied to modern instruments seem primarily to mean the use of a small string group that allows the wind parts to be heard and Bach's intricate polyphonic writing to emerge in its full glory. Editorial malfeasance aside, however, this is a strong B minor mass in an unusual territory lying between symphony orchestra treatments and those by Baroque-instrument bands. Performances by historical-instrument groups in modern halls are commonplace. The Cologne Chamber Orchestra, according to the liner notes of this album, plays "according to the principles of historical performance-practice on modern instruments and so can meet the needs of modern concert halls." This is nonsense, sloppily expressed (do concert halls have needs? desires maybe?). Check out Bach, J.S.: Mass in B minor by Sir Georg Solti & Felicity Lott & Anne Sofie von Otter & Hans Peter Blochwitz & William Shimell & Gwynne Howell & Chicago Symphony Chorus & Chicago Symphony Orchestra on Amazon Music.