Expectations of a Mass in B minor from Pygmalion and Raphaël Pichon are considerable after a St Matthew Passion (4/22) that many considered the work’s most notable ‘reset’ in characterisation and ...
The sound world of Bach’s last great Mass has changed radically in recent decades; one-to-a-part performance practice is, as conductor Lars Ulrik Mortensen puts it, “changing our entire notion of Bach ...