Special offer. Bach, J S: Mass in B minor, BWV232
Hillevi Martinpelto, Bernarda Fink (sopranos), Axel Köhler (alto), Christoph Prégardien (tenor), Matthias Goerne, Franz-Josef Selig (basses)
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin & RIAS Kammerchor, René Jacobs
Twenty-three years ago, Jacobs and his RIAS forces had mastered the freshness and transparency enjoyed today. Some unusually slow tempos, but soloists, choir and Akademie instruments create...
Special offer. Bach, J S: Mass in B minor, BWV232
Hillevi Martinpelto, Bernarda Fink (sopranos), Axel Köhler (alto), Christoph Prégardien (tenor), Matthias Goerne, Franz-Josef Selig (basses)
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin & RIAS Kammerchor, René Jacobs
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Twenty-three years ago, Jacobs and his RIAS forces had mastered the freshness and transparency enjoyed today. Some unusually slow tempos, but soloists, choir and Akademie instruments create...
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The Reissue of one of the finest recordings of Bach’s “Hohe Messe’!
This “compelling performance..spacious and intimate” (Gramophone) boasts of a line-up of famous soloists: Christoph Prégardien, Matthias Goerne, Bernarda Fink and Hillevi Martinpelto, singers of world renown who have amply won their spurs in Early Music. René Jacobs and his Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin and the Rias Kammerchor count among the best (if not THE best..) of Baroque ensembles and choirs around the world.
Contents and tracklist
- Hillevi Martinpelto (soprano), Bernarda Fink (soprano), Axel Kohler (alto), Christoph Prégardien (tenor), Matthias Goerne (bass), Franz-Josef Selig (bass)
- RIAS Chamber Chorus, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
- René Jacobs
- Recorded: September 1992
- Recording Venue: Jesus-Christus-Kirche Dahlem, Berlin, Germany
Awards and reviews
June 2015
Twenty-three years ago, Jacobs and his RIAS forces had mastered the freshness and transparency enjoyed today. Some unusually slow tempos, but soloists, choir and Akademie instruments create a joyful celebratory Mass
