Mass in B minor

Album by Johann Sebastian Bach & Sir John Eliot Gardiner

The Mass in B minor is a sacred choral work by German composer Johann Sebastian Bach, compiled and completed in 1749. A Baroque setting of the Latin Mass, it brings together earlier cantata movements and newly composed material to employ extensive counterpoint, varied solo and choral textures and rich orchestral colour, synthesising features of Bach's sacred compositional practice in the final years of his life.

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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    Mass in B minor BWV 232: I. Kyrie: Kyrie eleison
    9:28
  2. 2.
    Mass in B minor BWV 232: II. Kyrie: Christe eleison
    4:52
  3. 3.
    Mass in B minor BWV 232: III. Kyrie: Kyrie eleison
    3:31
  4. 4.
    Mass in B minor BWV 232: IV. Gloria: Gloria in excelsis (attacca)
    1:44
  5. 5.
    Mass in B minor BWV 232: V. Gloria: Et in terra pax
    4:04
  6. 6.
    Mass in B minor BWV 232: VI. Gloria: Laudamus te
    3:53
  7. 7.
    Mass in B minor BWV 232: VII. Gloria: Gratias agimus tibi
    3:02
  8. 8.
    Mass in B minor BWV 232: VIII. Gloria: Domine Deus (attacca)
    5:19
  9. 9.
    Mass in B minor BWV 232: IX. Gloria: Qui tollis peccata mundi
    3:19
  10. 10.
    Mass in B minor BWV 232: X. Gloria: Qui sedes ad dextram Patris
    4:23
  11. 11.
    Mass in B minor BWV 232: XI. Gloria: Quoniam tu solus sanctus (attacca)
    4:24
  12. 12.
    Mass in B minor BWV 232: XII. Gloria: Cum Sancto Spiritu
    3:47

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    Mass in B minor BWV 232: XIII. Credo: Credo in unum Deum
    1:55
  2. 3.
    Mass in B minor BWV 232: XIV. Credo: Credo in unum Deum / Patrem omnipotentem
    1:52
  3. 4.
    Mass in B minor BWV 232: XV. Credo: Et in unum Dominum
    4:10
  4. 5.
    Mass in B minor BWV 232: XVI. Credo: Et incarnatus est
    3:25
  5. 6.
    Mass in B minor BWV 232: XVII. Credo: Crucifixus
    3:09
  6. 7.
    Mass in B minor BWV 232: XVIII. Credo: Et resurrexit
    3:49
  7. 8.
    Mass in B minor BWV 232: XIX. Credo: Et in Spiritum Sanctum
    5:30
  8. 9.
    Mass in B minor BWV 232: XX. Credo: Confiteor (attacca)
    2:31
  9. 10.
    Mass in B minor BWV 232: XXI: Credo: Et exspecto resurrectionem
    3:34
  10. 11.
    Mass in B minor BWV 232: XXII. Sanctus: Sanctus
    5:26
  11. 12.
    Mass in B minor BWV 232: XXIII. Sanctus: Osanna in excelsis
    2:35
  12. 13.
    Mass in B minor BWV 232: XXIV. Sanctus: Benedictus, qui venit
    4:48
  13. 14.
    Mass in B minor BWV 232: XXV. Sanctus: Osanna (da capo)
    2:36
  14. 15.
    Mass in B minor BWV 232: XXVI. Agnus Dei: Agnus Dei
    5:46
  15. 16.
    Mass in B minor BWV 232: XXVII. Agnus Dei: Dona nobis pacem
    3:19

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