Johann
Sebastian Bach: Mass in B Minor
Program
notes by Michael Steinberg (San Francisco Symphony)
(with recommended recordings and books)
Article
by John Butt from the Oxford Composer Campanions (Academy of Ancient
Music)
Article
by Bernard D. Sherman (from Goldberg)
(on historically informed performance practice, with reviews of selected
recordings)
Latin
text, with instrumentation for each movement (Walter Bischof, University
of Alberta)
English
translation of the text (Z. Philip Ambrose, University of Vermont)
CD
Recordings
Historically
informed (following Baroque performance
practice):
Diego Fasolis,
Coro della Radio Svizzera (Italian Swiss Radio Chorus) and Sonatori
de la Gioiosa Marca, Arts Music (1999)
Recording
info. at amazon.com
Conductor’s
pick:
John Eliot Gardiner, English Baroque Soloists & Monteverdi Choir,
Deutsche Grammophon Archiv (1986)
Recording
info. at Deutsche Grammophon
Nikolaus
Harnoncourt, Concentus Musicus Wien, Vienna Boys Choir & Chorus
Viennensis, Teldec (1968)
Recording
info. at amazon.com
Philippe
Herreweghe, Collegium Vocale Ghent, Virgin Veritas (1988)
Recording
info. at Virgin Classics
Konrad
Junghänel, Cantus Cölln, Harmoni Mundi (2003)
Recording
info. at amazon.com
Robert
King, Tölz Boys Choir & The King’s Consort, Hyperion (1996)
Recording
info. at Hyperion
Ton
Koopmann, Amsterdam Baroque Choir & Orchestra, Erato (1994)
Recording
info. at amazon.com
Andrew
Parrott, Taverner Consort & Players & Tölz Boys Choir,
EMI/Angel/Virgin (1984)
Recording
info. at Virgin Classics
Joshua
Rifkin, The Bach Ensemble, Nonesuch (1982)
Recording
info. at amazon.com
Modern
(“traditional”) (not informed by modern scholarship
on Baroque performance practice):
Georges
Enescu, Boyd Neel String Orchestra, BBC Choral Society & Symphony
Chorus, BBC Legends (1951, live)
Eugen
Jochum, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, EMI Classics
(1980)
Recording
info. at EMI Classics
Otto
Klemperer, New Philharmonia Orchestra & BBC Symphony Chorus, EMI
Classics (1967)
Recording
info. at EMI Classics
Karl Richter,
Munich Bach Choir & Orchestra, Deutsche Grammophon Archiv (1961)
Recording
info. at Deutsche Grammophon
Helmuth Rilling, Bach-Collegium Stuttgart & Gächinger Kantorei
Stuttgart, Sony Classical (1977)
Recording
info. at Sony Classical
Hermann
Scherchen, Vienna Symphony & Vienna Academy Chamber Choir, Westminster
(1959) (Deutsche Grammophon)
Recording
info. at arkivmusic.com
Robert
Shaw, Robert Shaw Chorale & Orchestra, RCA Living Stereo (1960)
Recording
info. at amazon.com
CD
Reviews
by
Teri Noel Towe at Bach Cantatas Web site
(critical discography of recordings up to 1989)
by
Bernard D. Sherman
(article on performance practice and reviews of selected recordings)
by
Dan Davis at ClassicsToday (Scherchen)
from
Gramophone Magazine at the Boychoir Symposium (King)
(also a review of Haydn: Mass in Time of War)
by
David Hurwitz at ClassicsToday (new Rilling)
by
Raymond Tuttle at Classical Net (Shaw RCA)
Composer’s
Biography
BaroqueMusic.org
Web site
Grove
Concise Dictionary of Music
Timothy
A. Smith’s Web site