Bach - Gloria - Mass in B minor

Gloria in excelsis and Et in terra pax, from J.S. Bach's Mass in B Minor.

Horst Laubenthal
Hertha Töpper
Gundula Janowitz
Hermann Prey

Director: Karl Richter and the Munich Opera Bach Orchestra.-

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[Dhha]

Beautiful version. I sung this as baritone choir member in 1993 :-)

[orangiezade]

@judefox2010 Actually, if my understanding of music history is correct, Rococo architecture began its developing in the late Baroque period, during the time that Bach composed this piece. Also, this architecture is often found in German, where Bach was from and wrote his Masses for a Catholic Church there. so the Rococo architecture is probably a pretty accurate setting for the piece....unless you know something that I don't.

[mendoncacorreia]

@DannyEastVillage - No passage in the texts of this oratorio is inconsistent with Roman Catholic liturgy: cf., v.g., Ludwig Eisenhofer & Joseph Lechner, "The Liturgy of the Roman Rite", english translation, Herder/ Nelson; 2nd impression edition, 1961. The only consistent argument against the (frequent) use of it in masses is its length: with Bach's opus, a Solemn Mass will last at least three, three-and-a-half hours.

[Jaboie]

@orangiezade Y

[cuagmirag]

@DannyEastVillage he was lutheran but his masses were composed for catholic ceremonies. that's why they're played at the vatican.

[DannyEastVillage]

@tmitch1950 it is NOT the same for both; and in fact, the B-Minor is consistent with neither.

[DannyEastVillage]

@snarkytooth you're mistaken: several passages in the texts of the B-Minor mass are inconsistent with the Roman catholic liturgy.

[DannyEastVillage]

@orangiezade actually your understanding is, to put it kindly, ignorant.

Bach was not a Roman Catholic: He was Lutheran; but he deliberately altered the texts of his masses so that they could be claimed by neither Roman catholics nor Lutherans.

As to "accurate, " how can a building be an "accurate setting"?

[SimplyJosh]

@bassbass99able

well, that was a pretty ignorant statement.

[sUi5Udos]

@judefox2010 Its not always easy to say where late baroque ends and rococo begins.

[snarkytooth]

@tmitch1950 As I recall from my college music classes, this mass was intended to be used in the Catholic Church. Bach was trying to get a position with a Catholic noble. He failed in that, but produced one of the finest masses ever written!