Organization

Conductor

Nicolas Fink

Singer

Soprano

Julia Kirchner

Contralto

Jan Börner

Alto

Tenor

Raphael Höhn

Baritone

Benoît Capt

Others

Schweizer Jugendchor

Freitagsakademie Bern

JS Bach, Mass in B minor

Payerne

Switzerland

Abbatiale de Payerne

Lucerne

Public

Concert

Approved

In a special folder, Johann Sebastian Bach collected movements from various of his sacred compositions, which he probably considered particularly successful. Towards the end of his life, Bach condensed this bundle into what is probably the most important mass setting in music history: the Mass in B minor. With its contrapuntal density and mystical-symbolistic penetration, the monumental work can be understood as the sonorous quintessence of Bach's art of sacred music, which to this day enjoys our greatest admiration.

English

In einer besonderen Mappe sammelte Johann Sebastian Bach Sätze aus verschiedenen seiner geistlichen Kompositionen, die er vermutlich für besonders gelungen hielt. Gegen Ende seines Lebens verdichtete Bach dieses Konvolut zur wohl bedeutendsten Messvertonung der Musikgeschichte: der Messe in h-Moll. Das monumentale Werk kann in seiner kontrapunktischen Dichte und mystisch-symbolistischen Durchwirkung als klingende Quintessenz der Bach’schen Sakralmusikkunst verstanden werden, die bis heute unsere grösste Bewunderung geniesst.

Deutsch

JS Bach, Mass in B minor by Various, From (2022/2022), Conductor Nicolas Fink, Abbatiale de Payerne, Payerne, Switzerland

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