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J S Bach - Mass in B minor, BWV232 | BIS BISSACD170102

J S Bach - Mass in B minor, BWV232

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Label: BIS

Cat No: BISSACD170102

Barcode: 7318591701026

Format: Hybrid SACD

Number of Discs: 2

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 29th October 2007

Contents

Artists

Carolyn Sampson (soprano I)
Rachel Nicholls (soprano II)
Robin Blaze (alto)
Gerd Turk (tenor)
Peter Kooij (bass)
Bach Collegium Japan

Conductor

Masaaki Suzuki

Works

Bach, Johann Sebastian

Mass in B minor, BWV232

Artists

Carolyn Sampson (soprano I)
Rachel Nicholls (soprano II)
Robin Blaze (alto)
Gerd Turk (tenor)
Peter Kooij (bass)
Bach Collegium Japan

Conductor

Masaaki Suzuki

About

Few recordings have been as eagerly awaited as this, Masaaki Suzuki’s and Bach Collegium Japan’s version of the one large-scale Bach work remaining for them to commit to disc: the Mass in B minor, recorded in the Shoin Chapel in Kobe in March 2007.

The credentials of those involved are well known to any one who has been following BCJ and Suzuki’s ongoing cycle of Bach Cantatas or has read reviews of it. To quote only two: “Throughout this ongoing series I have come to consider the magnificent direction of Masaaki Suzuki to be one of the greatest recording achievements of my lifetime” (MusicWeb International) and “Compelling performances – the sheer polish and technical accomplishment of the music-making immediately hold the ear, and are reinforced by subtle phrasing and a quality of listening among all concerned that allows Bach’s counterpoint to progress with lightness and jaw-dropping clarity” (Classic FM Magazine).

As described in Bach scholar Klaus Hofmann’s informative liner notes, the B minor Mass ‘is music of tenderness as well as heroism, devout fervour as well as doctrinal strictness, the most profound grief as well as unbounded joy – music which, for all its timeless greatness, is profoundly human.’

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