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Mass in B minor

Title
Mass in B minor / Bach.
Author
Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750
Publication
London : Hyperion, [2018]

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Additional Authors
  • Watson, Katherine (Soprano)
  • Charlston, Helen
  • Davies, Iestyn
  • Bowen, Gwilym
  • Davies, Neal
  • Layton, Stephen
  • Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, instrumentalist.
  • Trinity College (University of Cambridge). Choir, singer.
Description
1 online resource (1 sound file)
Summary
"Within a decade of taking up his post as Thomaskantor in Leipzig in 1723, Bach was becoming ever more frustrated with the Saxon city's civic politics. Never one to compromise, he had clashed with the authorities almost from the word go. In August 1730 complaints that he had been neglecting his duties led him to submit a 'brief but highly necessary draft of a well-appointed church music' to the Leipzig council. Inter alia, he pointed out that he did not have sufficient skilled singers and, especially, players at his disposal. Bach's protests fell largely on deaf ears. In October he wrote to an old schoolfriend, Georg Erdmann, asking about the possibility of a post in Danzig, adding that the Leipzig authorities are 'very strange and little interested in music, so that I have to live amid almost constant vexation, envy and persecution'. Bach's official role was as teacher-cum-music director, with duties that included giving Latin instruction to the boys in St Thomas's School. For Bürgermeister Jakob Born and others on the city council, the composer was behaving like a Kapellmeister with attitude, one who had tasted too much renown for his own good. Bach remained in his Leipzig post until the end of his life. But after devoting himself intensively to the production of music for the Lutheran liturgy, his creative focus shifted: to the city's Collegium Musicum-an ensemble of students and professionals which held weekly concerts in Gottfried Zimmermann's fashionable coffee house-and to the world beyond Leipzig. Above all, Bach avidly cultivated his ties with the Dresden court"--Page 3 of booklet.
Uniform Title
Masses, BWV 232, B minor
Alternative Title
Masses, BWV 232
Subject
Masses
Genre/Form
Masses.
Language (note)
  • Sung in Latin.
LCCN
  • GBAJY1818104
  • GBAJY1818103
  • GBAJY1818106
  • GBAJY1818107
  • GBAJY1818108
  • GBAJY1818109
  • GBAJY1818110
  • GBAJY1818111
  • GBAJY1818112
  • GBAJY1818201
  • GBAJY1818202
  • GBAJY1818102
  • GBAJY1818204
  • GBAJY1818205
  • GBAJY1818206
  • GBAJY1818207
  • GBAJY1818208
  • GBAJY1818209
  • GBAJY1818210
  • GBAJY1818211
  • GBAJY1818212
  • GBAJY1818213
  • GBAJY1818214
  • GBAJY1818101
  • GBAJY1818105
  • GBAJY1818203
  • GBAJY1818215
OCLC
1425140325
Author
Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750, composer.
Title
Mass in B minor / Bach.
Publisher
London : Hyperion, [2018]
Playing Time
014753
Type of Content
performed music
Type of Medium
computer
Type of Carrier
online resource
Digital File Characteristics
audio file
Creator/Contributor Characteristics
Composer: Germans
Composer: Men
Performer
Katherine Watson, soprano ; Helen Charlston, mezzo-soprano ; Iestyn Davies, countertenor ; Gwilym Bowen, tenor ; Neal Davies, bass ; The Choir of Trinity College Cambridge ; Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment ; Stephen Layton, conductor.
Event
Recorded Trinity College Chapel, Cambridge, 2017 January 12-16.
Language
Sung in Latin.
Source of description
Hard copy version record.
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Added Author
Watson, Katherine (Soprano), singer.
Charlston, Helen, singer.
Davies, Iestyn, singer.
Bowen, Gwilym, singer.
Davies, Neal, singer.
Layton, Stephen, conductor.
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, instrumentalist.
Trinity College (University of Cambridge). Choir, singer.
Other Form:
Source record: Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750. Masses, BWV 232, B minor. Mass in B minor. London : Hyperion Records, [2018] (OCoLC)1027090772
Other Standard Identifier
GBAJY1818104
GBAJY1818103
GBAJY1818106
GBAJY1818107
GBAJY1818108
GBAJY1818109
GBAJY1818110
GBAJY1818111
GBAJY1818112
GBAJY1818201
GBAJY1818202
GBAJY1818102
GBAJY1818204
GBAJY1818205
GBAJY1818206
GBAJY1818207
GBAJY1818208
GBAJY1818209
GBAJY1818210
GBAJY1818211
GBAJY1818212
GBAJY1818213
GBAJY1818214
GBAJY1818101
GBAJY1818105
GBAJY1818203
GBAJY1818215
Publisher No.
00602448804068 Hyperion
Branch Call Number
eNYPL MUSIC
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