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Bach - Mass in B Minor / Guttenberg, Neubeuern Choral Society |
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Completed just a year before the end of the composer's life, Bach saw his great Mass in B Minor (1749) as concluding his vast body of work. Indeed, combining new music with material from previous cantatas spanning over two decades, musicologist Philipp Spitta noted, "Should all of Bach's compositions become lost, the Mass in B Minor alone would for all times give testimony of a man as if with the force of divine revelation." This performance is very much part of a living musical tradition, the Neubeuern Choral Society having been founded by conductor Enoch zu Guttenberg in 1967, developing a local, century- old Bavarian musical culture into a choir of international repute. Together with the Orchester der Klangverwaltung and the five international vocal soloists, these forces seem almost to fill the small church in which the performance is given. Perhaps inspired by the setting, this is a beautiful, and where necessary rousing, account, Guttenberg enthusiastically conducting even with one arm in a sling. The talented, comparatively youthful soloists complement each other well, tenor Deon van der Walt and soprano Anna Korondi being especially notable. -- Gary S. Dalkin, Amazon.co.uk
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