Special offer. Bach, J S: Mass in B minor, BWV232
Ensemble Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon
While several one-to-a-part readings can bring a chamber-like intimacy, you get the best of all worlds here: red-blooded warmth, intense coloration, grandeur and crackling vigour and not a scintilla...
Special offer. Bach, J S: Mass in B minor, BWV232
Ensemble Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon
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While several one-to-a-part readings can bring a chamber-like intimacy, you get the best of all worlds here: red-blooded warmth, intense coloration, grandeur and crackling vigour and not a scintilla...
About
The Ensemble Pygmalion continues its interpretative work on the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, proposing the Mass in B minor, BWV 232 in its version of 1733.
Pygmalion's first recording for Alpha, with Bach's Missae Breves BWV 234 and 235 (ALPHA 130) was received very enthusiastically by the critics and awarded, in particular, the Diapason d'Or of the Year 2008 and the Orphée d'Or 2008 by the Académie du Disque Lyrique.
Given the work's historical importance, this third recording by the ensemble is also the occasion for Raphaël Pichon to show the extent of his maturity, placing him in the front rank of today's young conductors.
Contents and tracklist
- Ensemble Pygmalion, Eugénie Warnier, Raphaël Pichon, Anna Reinhold, Carlos Mena, Emiliano Gonzalez Toro, Konstantin Wolff
- Recorded: 21-25 November 2011
- Recording Venue: Temple du Saint-Esprit, Paris, France
- Ensemble Pygmalion, Eugénie Warnier, Raphaël Pichon, Anna Reinhold, Carlos Mena, Emiliano Gonzalez Toro, Konstantin Wolff
- Recorded: 21-25 November 2011
- Recording Venue: Temple du Saint-Esprit, Paris, France
Awards and reviews
March 2014
While several one-to-a-part readings can bring a chamber-like intimacy, you get the best of all worlds here: red-blooded warmth, intense coloration, grandeur and crackling vigour and not a scintilla of mannered-ness...this is a Bach project of the highest calibre.
