Conductor: György Vashegyi Featuring: Mária Zádori, Katalin Halmai, Péter Bárány, Julian Podger, Raimund Nolte – singers J. S. Bach: Mass in B minor “The Mass in B minor (BWV 232) is one of the most significant works in the oeuvre of Johann Sebastian Bach and in terms of gravity, perhaps the only work comparable to the St Matthew Passion. Unlike the »Great Passion« which on its first performance was cast largely in the form familiar today, the »Hohe Messe« evolved over a period of decades... and only attained its final form having drawn on a variety of sources. (Furthermore it was written for Bach’s »bottom draw« because he knew there was no hope of it ever being performed in its totality.) One of the principal properties of this monumental work is its diversity: vast »tuttis» involving two choruses and a richly orchestrated orchestra contrast with exceptionally intimate chamber music set pieces and solos. My personal conviction is that perhaps compared to any other Bach work, it is most important for performance to employ – or at least be inspired by – the use of period instruments. It is a great honour for us, following our performance of the St Matthew Passion in April 2006, to have the opportunity to mount this magnum opus at the Béla Bartók National Concert Hall.” György Vashegyi
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