Messe h-Moll, BWV 232

Album by Johann Sebastian Bach & Christine Schäfer & Ingeborg Danz & Markus Schäfer & Thomas Quasthoff & Windsbacher Knabenchor & Deutsche Kammerakademie Neuss am Rhein & Karl-Friedrich Beringer

The Mass in B minor, BWV 232, is a sacred choral composition by Johann Sebastian Bach, compiled and completed in 1749. It synthesises earlier liturgical movements into a large-scale Baroque mass featuring dense contrapuntal choruses, expressive solo writing and varied orchestral colour, representing the culmination of Bach's lifelong engagement with sacred vocal forms.
First released: 1994

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    Messe h-Moll: Kyrie: Coro “Kyrie eleison”
    9:15
  2. 2.
    Messe h-Moll: Credo: Coro “Credo in unum Deum”
    1:48
  3. 3.
    Messe h-Moll: Credo: Coro “Patrem omnipotentem”
    2:03
  4. 4.
    Messe h-Moll: Kyrie: Aria “Christe eleison”
    5:09
  5. 5.
    Messe h-Moll: Credo: Aria “Et in unum Dominum”
    4:43
  6. 6.
    Messe h-Moll: Kyrie: Coro “Kyrie eleison”
    3:20
  7. 7.
    Messe h-Moll: Gloria: Coro “Gloria in excelsis” / “Et in terra pax”
    6:08
  8. 8.
    Messe h-Moll: Credo: Coro “Et incarnatus est”
    3:13
  9. 9.
    Messe h-Moll: Gloria: Aria “Laudamus te”
    4:12
  10. 10.
    Messe h-Moll: Credo: Coro “Crucifixus”
    2:29
  11. 11.
    Messe h-Moll: Gloria: Coro “Gratias agimus tibi”
    3:01
  12. 12.
    Messe h-Moll: Credo: Coro “Et resurrexit”
    4:00
  13. 13.
    Messe h-Moll: Credo: Aria “Et in Spiritum sanctum Dominum”
    5:10
  14. 14.
    Messe h-Moll: Gloria: Aria “Domine Deus”
    5:55
  15. 15.
    Messe h-Moll: Gloria: Coro “Qui tollis peccata mundi”
    3:25
  16. 16.
    Messe h-Moll: Credo: Coro “Confiteor” / “Et exspecto”
    6:38
  17. 17.
    Messe h-Moll: Sanctus: Coro “Sanctus”
    5:30
  18. 18.
    Messe h-Moll: Gloria: Aria “Qui sedes ad dextram Patris”
    4:49
  19. 19.
    Messe h-Moll: Gloria: Aria “Quoniam tu solus sanctus”
    5:15
  20. 20.
    Messe h-Moll: Sanctus: Coro “Osanna in excelsis”
    2:40
  21. 21.
    Messe h-Moll: Gloria: Coro “Cum Sancto Spiritu”
    3:57
  22. 22.
    Messe h-Moll: Sanctus: Aria “Benedictus”
    3:52
  23. 23.
    Messe h-Moll: Sanctus: Coro “Osanna in excelsis”
    2:33
  24. 24.
    Messe h-Moll: Agnus Dei: Aria “Agnus Dei”
    5:59
  25. 25.
    Messe h-Moll: Agnus Dei: Coro “Dona nobis pacem”
    3:12

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