Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner – J.S. Bach : Mass in B Minor, BWV 232 (2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner – J.S. Bach : Mass in B Minor, BWV 232 (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:45:43 minutes | 3,41 GB | Genre: Classical
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For his new recording of this monument to Bach, John Eliot Gardiner is limited to a light chamber orchestra (obviously the English Baroque Soloists, founded here 37 years ago by Gardiner!), a choir of reasonable size (the Monteverdi Choir, same remark…), and a meticulous – but above all, calm – conducting of the articulations, phrases and lines, almost like a kind of chamber opera. The tempos are rather upbeat, like baroque music back in its heyday – the perfect balance between respecting history and the quest for beauty of sound. Gardiner has nothing dogmatic – making this new recording a particularly welcome perspective among the ample discography(yet unsatisfactory) of this Mass en si.

Tracklist:
1. Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner – Missa, 1. Coro: Kyrie eleison (09:30)
2. Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner – Missa, 2. Duetteo: Christe eleison (04:48)
3. Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner – Missa, 3. Coro: Kyrie eleison (03:19)
4. Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner – Missa, 4. Coro: Gloria in excelsis deo, Coro: Et in terra pax (06:00)
5. Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner – Missa, 5. Aria: Laudamus te (03:59)
6. Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner – Missa, 6. Coro Gratias agimus tibi (03:00)
7. Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner – Missa, 7. Duetto: Domine Deus (05:11)
8. Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner – Missa, 8. Coro: Qui tollis peccata mundi (03:05)
9. Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner – Missa, 9. Aria: Qui sedes ad dextram Patris (04:06)
10. Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner – Missa, 10. Aria: Quoniam tu solus sanctus (04:34)
11. Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner – Missa, 11. Coro: Cum Sancto Spiritu (03:33)
12. Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner – Symbolum Nicenum, 1. Coro: Credo in unum Deum, Coro: Patrem omnipotentem (03:24)
13. Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner – Symbolum Nicenum, 2. Duetto: Et in unum Dominum (04:10)
14. Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner – Symbolum Nicenum, 3. Coro: Et incarnatus est (03:28)
15. Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner – Symbolum Nicenum, 4. Coro: Crucifixus (03:00)
16. Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner – Symbolum Nicenum, 5. Coro: Et resurrexit (03:57)
17. Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner – Symbolum Nicenum, 6. Aria: Et in Spiritum Sanctum (05:25)
18. Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner – Symbolum Nicenum, 7. Coro: Confiteor (02:32)
19. Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner – Symbolum Nicenum, 8. Et expecto (03:50)
20. Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner – Sanctus, 9. Sanctus (05:10)
21. Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner – Osanna, Benedictus, Agnus Dei et Dona nobis pacem 10. Coro: Osanna in excelsis (02:26)
22. Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner – Osanna, Benedictus, Agnus Dei et Dona nobis pacem 11. Aria: Benedictus (05:40)
23. Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner – Osanna, Benedictus, Agnus Dei et Dona nobis pacem 12. Coro: Osanna in excelsis (02:25)
24. Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner – Osanna, Benedictus, Agnus Dei et Dona nobis pacem 13. Aria: Agnus Dei (05:25)
25. Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner – Osanna, Benedictus, Agnus Dei et Dona nobis pacem 14. Coro: Dona (03:36)

Personnel:
Monteverdi Choir
English Baroque Soloists
Sir John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
Hannah Morrison (soprano)
Esther Brazil (mezzo)
Meg Bragle (alto)
Kate Symonds-Joy (alto)
Peter Davoren (tenor)
Nick Pritchard (tenor)
Alex Ashworth (bass)
David Shipley (bass)

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