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Music : Bach - Mass in B minor / Argenta, Nichols, Chance, Stafford, Milner, W. Evans, Gardiner


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by: Johann Sebastian Bach, John Eliot Gardiner, Nancy Argenta, Michael Chance, The English Baroque Soloists, The Monteverdi Choir, Mary Nichols, Wynford Evans, Howard Milner

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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0028941551429
Label: Archiv Produktion
Manufacturer: Archiv Produktion
Number Of Discs: 2
Publisher: Archiv Produktion
Release Date: October 25, 1990
Sales Rank: 49340
Studio: Archiv Produktion


Disc 1:
  1. No. 1.: 'Kyrie Eleison'
  2. No. 2. 'Christe Eleison'
  3. No. 3.: 'Kyrie Eleison'
  4. No. 4.: 'Gloria In Excelsis'
  5. No. 5.: 'Et In Terra Pax'
  6. No. 6.: 'Laudamus Te'
  7. No. 7.: 'Gratias Agimus Tibi'
  8. No. 8.: 'Domine Deus'
  9. No. 9.: 'Qui Tollis Peccata Mundi'
  10. No. 10.: 'Qui Sedes Ad Dextram Patris'
  11. No. 11.: 'Quoniam Tu Solus Sanctus'
  12. No. 12.: 'Cun Sancto Spiritu'
Disc 2:
  1. No. 13.: 'Credo In Unum Deum'
  2. No. 14.: 'Credo In Unum Deum/ Patrem Omnipotentem'
  3. No. 15.: 'Et In Unum Dominum'
  4. No. 16.: 'Et Incarnatus Est'
  5. No. 17.: 'Crucifixus'
  6. No. 18.: 'Et Resurrexit'
  7. No. 19.: 'Et In Spirtium Sanctum'
  8. Credo: Chorus: And I Look For The Ressurection Of The Dead...
  9. No. 20.: 'Confiteor (Attacca)'
  10. No. 21.: 'Et Exspecto Resurrectionem'
  11. No. 22.: 'Sanctus'
  12. No. 23.: 'Osanna In Excelsis'
  13. No. 24.: 'Benedictus, Qui Venit'
  14. No. 25.: 'Osanna (Da Capo)'
  15. No. 26.: 'Agnus Dei'
  16. No. 27.: 'Dona Nobis Pacem'
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Editorial Review:

Amazon.com essential recording:
One of the most frequently mentioned 'favorite' works of Bach, the B Minor Mass is not really a functional liturgical work, but an assemblage of movements written over a period of many years. Its grand scale is certainly awesome, but its musical and spiritual unity is more remarkable, considering its origin and the fact that it contains several different compositional styles--not to mention some of Bach's most profound and beautiful music. Performing this work and preserving a sense of its grand design while bringing out the considerable musical details is a challenge that most choirs, orchestras, and conductors are not up to. Almost by consensus, however, John Eliot Gardiner's version is the most successful--and it is indeed a phenomenal recording--at once sumptuous and penetrating, with gorgeous choral and solo singing, and spacious, vibrant sound. --David Vernier



Customer Reviews
Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 2 out of 5 stars - Disappointing
I do not understand what exactly was the thought behind this performance. The tempi are all displaced, they sound either rushed or sluggish. There is no motivation or expression in the sound of either the choir or the soloists and the Kyrie is just awful! I have never heard such disjointed and pretentious phrasing. There is no feeling for the style nor the words! I'm a professional musician so I know a thing or two, and I would not recommend this recording to anyone.


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Bach - Mass in B minor / Argenta, Nichols, Chance, Stafford, Milner, W. Evans, Gardiner
Bach - Mass in B minor / Argenta, Nichols, Chance, Stafford, Milner, W. Evans, Gardiner is a grand recording with the fine work done by Gardiner. The Monteverdi choir sings with conviction and being a devout person at heart I verily felt moved by the conviction of their singing. The book-let is a mixed bag. Well-written esays and a wonderful cover picture and then you have an atrocious photograph. It looks like it was shot with a polaroid camera by a friend of Gardiner and not done by a professional ... Read More


Rating: 2 out of 5 stars - The Skipping Bach
I have owned this recording since it first came out. The big attraction was the period performance on authentic instruments, as up to date as scholarship (well, scholarly fashion at the time) could desire. The other reviewers have fairly described the sound and the singing, both of which are excellent, BUT --- And here lies the rub. The intolerably mannered conducting vitiates almost all the rest. It's the same as with Gardiner's Handel recordings--no suggestion of dignity or weight or, as another ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Get It While the Recording is Still Available...
Easily one of today's available outstanding Bach choral recordings, Gardiner's work should be marked with a "must have" rating for any Bach enthusiast or for anyone interested in the baroque choral genre. As someone once said, there are so many superlatives about the Mass in B-minor that the work sometimes defies rational description. Surely any work often cited as "the greatest work of western music ever written" can never live up to expectations, and thus it would be natural to expect to be in some small ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Gardiner's Masterpiece
This is the greatest recording
Of the greatest work
Of the greatest composer
That ever was.
If I am biased
John and Johann have made me so.
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