Bach, J S: Mass in B minor, BWV232

Cohen's take side-steps Joshua Rifkin's premise that it should be sung one-to-a-part and fields a choir of 20...Cohen announces the Credo at an invigoratingly purposeful lick...Tim Mead's eloquently... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2014, More…

Release Date: 3rd Nov 2014
Catalogue No: CDA68051/2
Label: Hyperion

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Bach, J S: Mass in B minor, BWV232

Kyrie Eleison

Christe Eleison

Kyrie Eleison

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Gloria In Excelsis Deo

Et In Terra Pax Hominibus

Laudamus Te

Gratias Agimus Tibi

Domine Deus

Qui Tollis Peccata Mundi

Qui Sedes Ad Dexteram Patris

Quoniam Tu Solus Sanctus

Cum Sancto Spiritu

Credo In Unum Deum

Patrem Omnipotentem

Et In Unum Dominum

Et Incarnatus Est

Crucifixus Etiam Pro Nobis

Et Resurrexit Tertia Die

Et In Spiritum Sanctum

Confiteor Unum Baptisma

Et Exspecto Resurrectionem

Sanctus

Osanna In Excelsis

Benedictus

Osanna In Excelsis

Agnus Dei

Dona Nobis Pacem

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Jonathan Cohen talks to Presto's David Smith about the recording here.

Arcangelo and their inspirational director Jonathan Cohen, one of the brightest stars in the Early Music galaxy, present Bach’s great masterpiece in a glorious new recording made following a thrilling performance at the Tetbury festival.

Arcangelo are still a relatively new ensemble, but have already won one Gramophone Award and been nominated for another. The members of the choir and orchestra are performers of dazzling technical ability with a passion for faithful interpretation that goes far beyond historical understanding. Their previous recordings for Hyperion have been praised for their liveliness, colour and full string sound. In this new recording these aspects of their performance are alchemically combined with a feeling of the great solemnity of Bach’s monumental achievement.

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Christmas 2014

Cohen's take side-steps Joshua Rifkin's premise that it should be sung one-to-a-part and fields a choir of 20...Cohen announces the Credo at an invigoratingly purposeful lick...Tim Mead's eloquently restrained Agnus Dei is crowned by a Dona nobis pacem whose blazing grandiloquence grips.

November 2014

Cohen's rejection of the generic, within a grand and ravishing overview, is what propels an overwhelming sense here that this reading deserves to be taken very seriously...The work infrequently speaks with such gracefulness, freedom or conviction.

April 2015

A performance that couldn’t be bettered.

23rd November 2014

One might expect Cohen’s Arcangelo to opt for minimal personnel — although the trumpety movements suggest spectacular forces — but his choir of 20 can convey the inward spirituality of Et incarnatus est and the laudatory éclat of the Gloria and Et resurrexit with equal efficacy.

30th November 2014

Gradually the ear responds to Jonathan Cohen’s musically intelligent mix of period and mainstream traditions, delivered by top musicians...This account will please, especially, anyone trapped between the extremes of Bach performance practice, unsure how to choose a B minor mass from the numerous options on offer.

Early Music Today May 2015

[the] lines are finely shaped and their textures sound rich rather than heavy. This is a superbly conceived and executed set, absolutely joyous and gloriously colourful

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