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Messe In H-Moll, BWV 232 - Mass In B Minor - Messe En Si Mineur

Johann Sebastian Bach, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Kurt Equiluz, Max van Egmond, Die Wiener Sängerknaben, Chorus Viennensis, Concentus Musicus Wien

Label: TELDEC
Catalog number: 6.48233
Format: LP · Album · Reissue
Country: Germany
Released: 1984
Genre: Classical

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This 1984 release marks a significant milestone in the historical performance movement, as Nikolaus Harnoncourt and Concentus Musicus Wien apply period-accurate instruments and stylistic rigor to Bach’s monumental Mass in B Minor. By utilizing original-instrument ensembles and boys' choirs, this recording offers a stark, transparent alternative to the grander, late-Romantic interpretations that dominated the mid-20th century.

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Messe In H-Moll, BWV 232 - Mass In B Minor - Messe En Si Mineur has 33 tracks.

Messe In H-Moll "Hoche Messe", BWV 232
Kyrie
A1Kyrie Eleison8:41
A2Christe Eleison5:59
A3Kyrie Eleison3:00
Gloria
A4Gloria In Excelsis Deo1:52
A5Et In Terra Pax4:38
B1Laudamus Te4:38
B2Gratias Agimus Bibi2:53
B3Domine Deus5:48
B4Qui Tollis Peccata Mundi2:27
B5Qui Sedes Ad Dextram5:03
C1Quoniam Tu Solus Sanctus4:32
C2Cum Sancto Spiritu4:17
Symbolum Nicenum
Credo
C3Credo In Unum Deum2:07
C4Patrem Omnipotentem2:05
C5Et In Unum Dominum5:36
C6Et Incarnatus Est2:39
C7Crucifixus2:21
C8Et Resurrexit4:19
C9Et In Spiritum Sanctum5:21
C10Confiteur Unum Baptisam3:33
C11Et Ex Specto2:15
Sanctus
D1Sanctus4:47
D2Osanna In Excelsis2:51
D3Benedictus6:31
Agnus Dei
D4Agnus Dei4:45
D5Dona Nobis Pacem3:02

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This 1984 TELDEC release represents a landmark in the historically informed performance movement. Nikolaus Harnoncourt and the Concentus Musicus Wien, having pioneered the use of period instruments for Bach's vocal works, revisited the Mass in B Minor with a focus on structural clarity and period-appropriate textures. By utilizing the Wiener Sängerknaben and the Chorus Viennensis, Harnoncourt sought to recreate the specific vocal timbres Bach would have intended, moving away from the dense, romanticized interpretations that dominated the mid-20th century.

The production highlights the scholarly rigor for which TELDEC's Das Alte Werk series became known. Kurt Equiluz and Max van Egmond, both stalwarts of the early music revival, provide vocal performances that emphasize textual articulation over operatic vibrato. Upon its release, the recording was praised by musicologists for its technical precision and its successful integration of academic research with a compelling, modern-sounding narrative flow, solidifying Harnoncourt’s reputation as a definitive, albeit occasionally controversial, interpreter of the Baroque canon.

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