Zachary Carrettin has spent at least two years laying the foundation for this weekend. After his rapid promotion from concertmaster to music director of the Boulder Bach Festival in 2013, Carrettin ...
Since 2011, when conductor John Nelson directed the first installment of a rotating cycle of J.S. Bach’s three big sacred choral masterpieces with his Chicago Bach Project chorus and orchestra, ...
SAN FRANCISCO — Looking forward to this week’s performances of J.S. Bach’s Mass in B Minor by the San Francisco Symphony and Chorus, I pulled some old volumes off the shelves and did some brush-up ...
Watch an excerpt from Bach's Mass in B Minor, conducted by Karl Richter, now available on Carnegie Hall+ in the video here. The Mass in B Minor is at once a devotional work, and a stunning and ...
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J.S. Bach’s Mass in B Minor has been interpreted in many ways over the decades. In recent years, performers have gravitated away from large-scale choral and orchestral forces to smaller and likely ...
Herreweghe has now recorded the Mass in B Minor three times with the Collegium Vocale Gent, and by general consensus it has improved with each recording. The challenge was to make the filigree ...
As Zachary Carrettin, second-year music director of the Boulder Bach Festival, approaches the monumental Mass in B Minor this weekend, one of his top concerns is getting the right balance on several ...
Johann Sebastian Bach’s Mass in B Minor is almost universally considered one of the great masterpieces of western art. Completed in 1749, it represents not only the pinnacle of the work of this ...
Rarely can Bach’s Mass in B Minor have felt so joyful. In this summation of a lifetime’s experience performing Bach with his Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists John Eliot Gardiner lifts his ...
One of the Baroque period's most celebrated choral masterpieces, this Mass was Bach's last major work before he died. Bach composed his Mass in B minor around 1748–49, a year before his death in 1750.