With this recording, conductor John Eliot Gardiner returns to Bach's magisterial Mass in B minor, BWV 232, just about exactly 30 years after first recording it in 1985. In between have come a host of other Bach recordings; Gardiner's impressive Bach cantata tour with his Monteverdi Choir, performing Bach's music in places of historical importance to it; and his book Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven , drawing in large part on insights developed during the recording of the cantata cycle. With all this in mind, it is a ...
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With this recording, conductor John Eliot Gardiner returns to Bach's magisterial Mass in B minor, BWV 232, just about exactly 30 years after first recording it in 1985. In between have come a host of other Bach recordings; Gardiner's impressive Bach cantata tour with his Monteverdi Choir, performing Bach's music in places of historical importance to it; and his book Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven , drawing in large part on insights developed during the recording of the cantata cycle. With all this in mind, it is a testimony to the consistency of Gardiner's vision that nothing has been fundamentally recast here. Instead, the music-making is sharpened, the interpretations deepened, with singers who have learned to interact with each other in very subtle ways. Gardiner here uses a choir of 35 and an even larger orchestra with dual harpsichord and organ continuo: large even by general standards and representing a total rejection of the fashionable one-voice-per-part approach. The only objection...
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