Classical music enthusiasts flocked to St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Evanston on Sunday for the final concert of the 50th annual Bach Week Festival. As the name suggests, Bach Week is a festival that ...
Bach’s Mass in B Minor begins with a majestic howl of pain—four adagio bars that combine formal grandeur with writhing interior lines, as if figures in a cathedral frieze of the Last Judgment were ...
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 ...
Revel in the splendor of The Bach Society of Saint Louis’ triumphant rendition of J.S. Bach’s monumental Mass in B minor. Led by Music Director and Conductor A. Dennis Sparger, The Bach Society Chorus ...
Orlando Sings presents a one-night-only performance of Johann Sebastian Bach's Mass in B Minor in acoustically exquisite Steinmetz Hall on March 1st at 8:00 p.m. Conducted by Dr. Andrew Minear, and ...
We began in a severe, even austere, mood, with a grave stillness and almost liturgical solemnity, and even with a fairly restrained Gloria. Then, somewhere around (to my ears) the Gratias agimus tibi, ...
There are few major choral works that ‘period’ directors tend to revisit in the studio as regularly as the Mass in B minor. If Gardiner, Brüggen, Harnoncourt and Herreweghe’s individual braces of ...