Mass Mass OF The Fermenting Dregs

The Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists are renowned of their spectacular performances of Bach’s epic masterpiece, which they have toured extensively.

Mayr’s great Mass in E flat major is a late work, largely composed in 1843. It conforms to the prevailing Italian messa concertata tradition with its clear divisions into distinct vocal numbers, as opposed to the symphonic Mass which held sway north of the Alps. In this reconstruction and musical revival, Mayr’s imposing, tonally consonant and expressive setting can be heard in all its grandeur and eloquence. With its striking vocal solos and choruses, and characteristically songlike instrumental roles, Mayr contributed a late pinnacle in the long history of this form of the Mass.

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The Chicago Tribune has reported that St. John Cantius Church is “America’s Most Beautiful Church.” The striking visual beauty of St. John Cantius Church is now translated into the most exquisite and sublime sounds of the Schola Cantorum of St. John Cantius.

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.

Andrzej Mikulski (born 12 November 1988 in Gdynia) is a Polish composer, organist, jazz pianist and music producer. Graduate of the Chopin University of music in Warsaw (2013). Scholarship holder of the Conservatory of music in Lyon (France). In 2022 he received the title of Doctor of Arts in the discipline of musical arts at the Stanisław Moniuszko Academy of music in Gdańsk.

In 1992, Paul Hillier and his Theatre of Voices recorded the Byrd four-part mass with literally four voices soprano Judith Nelson, countertenor Drew Minter, tenor Paul Eliot, and baritone Hillier. The result (which, like many other recordings of these masses, is interspersed with "Propers" in this case for the Feast of Corpus Christi) is a too-closely recorded, dynamic, and deeply felt performance, hampered by Minter's forced, unnatural quality and an overall undernourished ensemble juiced up by the engineering. No such problems occur here.