Mass in B minor

Album by Johann Sebastian Bach & The Bach Ensemble & Joshua Rifkin

The Mass in B minor is a musical composition by Johann Sebastian Bach, completed in 1749. The work is a large-scale setting of the Latin Mass that synthesises Baroque counterpoint, operatic affect and intricate instrumental writing into extensive choral movements and solo vocal passages, and it occupies a place among Bach's late vocal compositions reflecting his practice of compiling and reworking earlier material into a unified liturgical structure.

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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    Mass in B Minor, BWV 232: Kyrie
    9:40
  2. 2.
    Mass in B Minor, BWV 232: Christe
    4:41
  3. 3.
    Mass in B Minor, BWV 232: Kyrie
    3:29
  4. 4.
    Mass in B Minor, BWV 232: Gloria
    6:07
  5. 5.
    Mass in B Minor, BWV 232: Laudamus Te
    4:13
  6. 6.
    Mass in B Minor, BWV 232: Gratias Agimus Tibi
    2:58
  7. 7.
    Mass in B Minor, BWV 232: Domine Deus/Qui Tollis
    8:05
  8. 8.
    Mass in B Minor, BWV 232: Qui Sedes
    4:24
  9. 9.
    Mass in B Minor, BWV 232: Quoniam/Cum Sancto Spiritu
    9:17

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    Mass in B Minor, BWV 232: Credo in unum Deum Patrem omnipotentum
    4:04
  2. 3.
    Mass in B Minor, BWV 232: Et in unum Dominum
    4:23
  3. 4.
    Mass in B Minor, BWV 232: Et incarnatus est
    2:29
  4. 5.
    Mass in B Minor, BWV 232: Crucifixus
    3:20
  5. 6.
    Mass in B Minor, BWV 232: Et resurrexit
    3:53
  6. 7.
    Mass in B Minor, BWV 232: Et in Spiritum sanctum
    5:43
  7. 8.
    Mass in B Minor, BWV 232: Confiteor unum baptisma / Et Expecto
    6:42
  8. 9.
    Mass in B Minor, BWV 232: Sanctus
    4:27
  9. 10.
    Mass in B Minor, BWV 232: Osanna in excelsis
    2:43
  10. 11.
    Mass in B Minor, BWV 232: Benedictus
    4:13
  11. 12.
    Mass in B Minor, BWV 232: Osanna in excelsis
    2:43
  12. 13.
    Mass in B Minor, BWV 232: Agnus Dei
    4:56
  13. 14.
    Mass in B Minor, BWV 232: Dona nobis pacem
    3:06

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