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Thomas Hengelbrock, Freiburger Barockorchester, Balthasar-Neumann-Chor - Bach: Messe H-Moll / Mass B minor BWV 232 (1997) Music

Posted by ArlegZ at Nov. 13, 2021

Two things distinguished Thomas Hengelbrock's 1996 recording of Bach's B minor Mass from the many other historically informed performances of the work released in the early digital era. Where many other conductors used small mixed choirs, Hengelbrock not only used the 26-voice Bathasar-Neumann-Chor, he drew his soloists from it. And where most other conductors tended exclusively toward quick tempos, Hengelbrock mixed things up, favoring fast tempos in joyful movements and slow tempos for painful movements.

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Bach: Complete Works - Hänssler Edition Bachakademie - Vol. 19 - Mass b-Minor, Sacred Music in Latin Music

Posted by WellIThink at Sept. 4, 2007

Bach: Complete Works - Hänssler Edition Bachakademie - Vol. 19 - Mass b-Minor, Sacred Music in Latin
Vol. 19: 4 CDs | 2000 | APE + CUE | Booklets: 136 MB | 970 MB

A very different set than Teldec's Bach 2000. The Hanssler Bachakademie, supervised by Helmut Rilling, is not HIP (historic instruments performance). The orchestras are warm and lush (but not huge). The soloists are, in general, extraordinary. The tempos are sane. Hanssler has included fragments of some incomplete BWV's that are not included in the Teldec set; a minor plus but appealing. I found I preferred these traditional instruments and the daring using of forte-piano in place of harpsichord on a few of the recordings (flute sonatas). Highlights for me are The Well-Tempered Clavier Books 1 and 2, Musical Offering, Flute Sonatas, The Motets. I also found I prefer these Cantatas recordings to any other, including the new Koopman, Suzuki and the well-known Leonhart-Harnoncourt. While not the newest recordings, the sound is warmer which I prefer to the new state-of-the-art HIP recordings. Although most of the Cantatas are older recordings, much of the Hanssler Bachakademie edition is newly recorded for this project and the sound is consistent and excellent.
Jan Hanford, J.S. Bach Home Page

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Bach J.S. - Messe h-moll; Mass B minor BWV 232 (Thomas Hengelbrock) [1997] Music

Posted by Sowulo at Oct. 11, 2015

Without doubt, the selecction of ones favourite recording within the vast sellection of interpretations of Bach's Mass in B-Minor is a difficult task. I have sung this mass and heard more than ten different recordings of this "miracle of mighty mountain range in the planet of music". For me, Hengelbrocks recording is by far the best one: first of all, Hengelbrocks interpretation is very inspired, with convincing and sometimes innovative tempi, as for instance in the opening Kyrie which, for the first time, I could sense as a funeral march; second, the chorus is brillant, for me even better than the international "stars" as for example the Monteverdi Choir; third, the Soloists wich are members of the choir, integrate perfectly in the whole picture of this master piece; fourth, the balance engineers have done an exceptional work which allows you to hear every detail of the orchestra, soloists and choirs in perfect balance.

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Orchestra Of The Age Of Enlightenment - Bach- Mass in B Minor, BWV 232 (2018) [Official Digital Download 24/96] Vinyl & HR

Posted by pyatak at Oct. 1, 2023

Orchestra Of The Age Of Enlightenment - Bach- Mass in B Minor, BWV 232 (2018) [Official Digital Download 24/96]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 01:47:45 minutes | 1.99 GB
Classical | Studio Master, Official Digital Download

Among the 23 German documents included in UNESCO’s “Memory of the World” list, there are but two musical manuscripts: Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 and Johann Sebastian Bach’s Mass in B minor.

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Eugene Ormandy - Bach- Mass in B Minor, BWV 232 (2023) [Official Digital Download 24/192] Vinyl & HR

Posted by pyatak at Dec. 15, 2023

Eugene Ormandy - Bach- Mass in B Minor, BWV 232 (2023) [Official Digital Download 24/192]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/192 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 02:03:00 minutes | 4.87 GB
Classical | Studio Master, Official Digital Download

Among the 23 German documents included in UNESCO’s “Memory of the World” list, there are but two musical manuscripts: Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 and Johann Sebastian Bach’s Mass in B minor.

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Pygmalion & Raphaël Pichon - J. S. Bach Mass in B Minor, BWV 232 (2025) [Official Digital Download 24/96] Vinyl & HR

Posted by pyatak at April 1, 2025

Pygmalion & Raphaël Pichon - J. S. Bach Mass in B Minor, BWV 232 (2025) [Official Digital Download 24/96]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 01:47:18 minutes | 1.95 GB
Classical | Studio Master, Official Digital Download

A visionary synthesis of the art of a composer who, here more than anywhere else, gives meaning to the world in which he lives, and reveals to us something of what lies beyond, the Mass in B minor is one of the supreme peaks of Bach’s music.

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René Jacobs, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin - Bach: Mass in B Minor, BWV 232 (2022) Music

Posted by ciklon5 at May 11, 2022

René Jacobs, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin - Bach: Mass in B Minor, BWV 232 (2022)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless | 1:43:52 | 465 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: harmonia mundi

A composition as brilliant as it is protean - the earliest sections date back to 1724, others were written in 1733 in the hope of obtaining a post in Dresden - the Mass in B minor occupied Bach until the end of his life. The work, which is more ecumenical than strictly Catholic, offers a digest of his art at its expressive peak: a world in itself. It is an understatement to say that the performers on this recording were eager to revisit it, following their acclaimed interpretations of the two Passions and the Christmas Oratorio.

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Pygmalion & Raphaël Pichon - J. S. Bach Mass in B Minor, BWV 232 (2025) [Official Digital Download 24/96] Vinyl & HR

Posted by pyatak at April 1, 2025

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Netherlands Bach Society, Jos Van Veldhoven - J.S. Bach: Mass in B minor (2007) [Official Digital Download 24/192] Vinyl & HR

Posted by SERTiL at June 20, 2017

Netherlands Bach Society, Jos Van Veldhoven - J.S. Bach: Mass in B minor (2007)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/192 kHz | Time - 105:21 minutes | 3.24 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet

Sometimes you come across a performance that may not be exactly to your taste, but is nonetheless so persuasive of its type that it disarms criticism. This is one. It's not quite a "one to a part" interpretation of the work, but with 10 choristers and eight strings, it is intimate, and that always risks minimizing the majesty that Bach built into the Sanctus, the eight-part Osanna, and the choruses with trumpets and drums.

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Johann Sebastian Bach - Harnoncourt - Messe in H-moll / Mass in B-minor BWV 232 (1986) Music

Posted by luckburz at Dec. 23, 2013

Johann Sebastian Bach - Messe in H-moll / Mass in B-minor BWV 232
Concentus Musicus Wien / Arnold-Schönberg-Chor / Nikolaus Harnoncourt
EAC+LOG+CUE | 2x FLAC Image: 450 MB | Artwork (no Booklet) | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: Teldec "Das Alte Werk" # 8.35716 ZA | Country/Year: Germany 1986
Genre: Classical | Style: Sacred, Baroque, Mass

…It was unusual for composers working in the Lutheran tradition to compose a Missa tota and Bach's motivations remain a matter of scholarly debate. The Mass was never performed in totality during Bach's lifetime; the first documented complete performance took place in 1859. Since the nineteenth century it has been widely hailed as one of the greatest compositions in history, and today it is frequently performed and recorded…

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