Artist: Les Arts Florissants, William Christie
Album: J.S. Bach: Mass in B Minor, BWV 232 (Live)
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2018
Audio Format:: FLAC (tracks) 24 bit, 44,1 kHz
Duration: 01:45:00
Total Tracks: 27
Total Size: 1,01 GB

Tracklist:

1-01. Les Arts Florissants and William Christie – Mass in B minor, BWV 232, Part I, Kyrie, Gloria: Kyrie eleison (Live) (09:53)
1-02. Les Arts Florissants, Katherine Watson, Tim Mead and William Christie – Mass in B minor, BWV 232, Part I, Kyrie, Gloria: Christe eleison (Live) (04:53)
1-03. Les Arts Florissants and William Christie – Mass in B minor, BWV 232, Part I, Kyrie, Gloria: Kyrie eleison (Live) (03:16)
1-04. Les Arts Florissants and William Christie – Mass in B minor, BWV 232, Part I, Kyrie, Gloria: Gloria in excelsis (Live) (01:42)
1-05. Les Arts Florissants and William Christie – Mass in B minor, BWV 232, Part I, Kyrie, Gloria: Et in terra pax (Live) (04:53)
1-06. Les Arts Florissants, Katherine Watson and William Christie – Mass in B minor, BWV 232, Part I, Kyrie, Gloria: Laudamus te (Live) (04:12)
1-07. Les Arts Florissants and William Christie – Mass in B minor, BWV 232, Part I, Kyrie, Gloria: Gratias agimus tibi (Live) (02:39)
1-08. Les Arts Florissants, Katherine Watson, Reinoud Van Mechelen and William Christie – Mass in B minor, BWV 232, Part I, Kyrie, Gloria: Dominus Deus (Live) (04:58)
1-09. Les Arts Florissants and William Christie – Mass in B minor, BWV 232, Part I, Kyrie, Gloria: Qui tollis peccata mundi (Live) (02:47)
1-10. Les Arts Florissants, Tim Mead and William Christie – Mass in B minor, BWV 232, Part I, Kyrie, Gloria: Qui sedes ad dextram Patris (Live) (04:24)
1-11. Les Arts Florissants, André Morsch and William Christie – Mass in B minor, BWV 232, Part I, Kyrie, Gloria: Quoniam tu solus sanctus (Live) (04:35)
1-12. Les Arts Florissants and William Christie – Mass in B minor, BWV 232, Part I, Kyrie, Gloria: Cum Sancto Spiritu (Live) (03:56)
2-01. Les Arts Florissants and William Christie – Mass in B minor, BWV 232, Part II, Symbolum Nicenum: Credo in unum Deum (Live) (01:57)
2-02. Les Arts Florissants and William Christie – Mass in B minor, BWV 232, Part II, Symbolum Nicenum: Patrem omnipotentem (Live) (01:49)
2-03. Les Arts Florissants, André Morsch, Tim Mead and William Christie – Mass in B minor, BWV 232, Part II, Symbolum Nicenum: Et in unum Dominum (Live) (04:27)
2-04. Les Arts Florissants and William Christie – Mass in B minor, BWV 232, Part II, Symbolum Nicenum: Et incarnatus est (Live) (03:14)
2-05. Les Arts Florissants and William Christie – Mass in B minor, BWV 232, Part II, Symbolum Nicenum: Crucifixus (Live) (02:54)
2-06. Les Arts Florissants and William Christie – Mass in B minor, BWV 232, Part II, Symbolum Nicenum: Et resurrexit (Live) (04:03)
2-07. Les Arts Florissants, André Morsch and William Christie – Mass in B minor, BWV 232, Part II, Symbolum Nicenum: Et in Spiritum sanctum Dominum (Live) (05:39)
2-08. Les Arts Florissants and William Christie – Mass in B minor, BWV 232, Part II, Symbolum Nicenum: Confiteor (Live) (04:22)
2-09. Les Arts Florissants and William Christie – Mass in B minor, BWV 232, Part II, Symbolum Nicenum: Et expecto (Live) (02:17)
2-10. Les Arts Florissants and William Christie – Mass in B minor, BWV 232, Part III, Sanctus: Sanctus (Live) (04:19)
2-11. Les Arts Florissants and William Christie – Mass in B minor, BWV 232, Part IV, Osanna, Benedictus, Agnus Dei, Dona nobis pacem: Osanna in excelsis (Live) (02:34)
2-12. Les Arts Florissants, Reinoud Van Mechelen and William Christie – Mass in B minor, BWV 232, Part IV, Osanna, Benedictus, Agnus Dei, Dona nobis pacem: Benedictus (Live) (04:07)
2-13. Les Arts Florissants and William Christie – Mass in B minor, BWV 232, Part IV, Osanna, Benedictus, Agnus Dei, Dona nobis pacem: Osanna in excelsis (Live) (02:33)
2-14. Les Arts Florissants, Tim Mead and William Christie – Mass in B minor, BWV 232, Part IV, Osanna, Benedictus, Agnus Dei, Dona nobis pacem: Agnus Dei (Live) (05:24)
2-15. Les Arts Florissants and William Christie – Mass in B minor, BWV 232, Part IV, Osanna, Benedictus, Agnus Dei, Dona nobis pacem: Dona nobis pacem (Live) (02:59)

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The Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists are renowned of their spectacular performances of Bach’s epic masterpiece, which they have toured extensively.

During their last tour (in Munich, Frankfurt, Lucerne, Aix-en-Provence and Paris) there was a stampede for tickets and they performed every night in full houses, to spellbound audiences.

This album is the culmination of the tour: it was recorded in an open session in London, and captures the special atmosphere of the concerts

It is presented in a 2-CD casebook and contains a booklet featuring original notes by John Eliot Gardiner translated in English, German and French.”Gardiner’s second recording of the B minor Mass is a predictably exhilarating experience. The opening Kyrie, paced to perfection, leaves one amazed afresh…the chorus (which supplies the mostly fine soloists) is its usual splendid self.” (Sunday Times)

“there are special moments, especially in more homophonic writing like ‘Et incarnatus’, sung by the Monteverdi Choir with rapt concentration. The playing of the EBS, too, is outstanding.” (Early Music Today)

“Thirty years on, Gardiner’s take on the mass is if anything more exuberant, more joyful than his famous Archiv reading: all concerned seem to share this vision, especially the soloists who step forward from the choir. Textures are all crystal clear, part in thanks to a superbly natural, warm recording. Essential listening.” (Classical Music)