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Composer:
Johann Sebastian Bach

Artist(s):
Kathleen Ferrier
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf

Conductor:
Herbert von Karajan

Background: Described in its first review in the Gramophone as 'a landmark in the history of the gramophone', this recording of the B minor Mass was made a couple of years after Herbert von Karajan had conducted Bach's masterpiece in Vienna at a festival to mark the 200th anniversary of the composer's death.

As a substantial (22-minute) bonus to the complete studio recording of the Mass, this compilation presents extracts from the rehearsals for that 1950 performance. Caught by EMI's recording engineer Anthony Griffith, the voices of the two female soloists - Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Kathleen Ferrier - are heard in the soprano and contralto solos and duets, including Ferrier's singing of the Agnus Dei, which it is reported reduced Karajan to tears.

Unusually, the complete performance was recorded in both Vienna (for the choruses sung by the Vienna Singverein) in 1952 and London (for the contributions of the soloists accompanied by a small specialist group of players from the Philharmonia Orchestra) a year later. But given the skill of all concerned, including EMI's legendary producer Walter Legge, what emerges is an impressive entity and, according to the Gramophone 'a performance that is in every way superlative'.

CATALOGUE NR: 5868382
RECORD LABEL: EMI Historical
FORMAT: 2 CD Set
PRICE: including VAT £ 8.45
RELEASE DATE: 09-May-2005

COMPOSER: Johann Sebastian Bach
TITLE: Mass in B minor BWV232 - complete
TRACKS: Mass in B minor BWV232 - rehearsal highlights.
ORCHESTRA: Vienna Symphony Orchestra and Philharmonia Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Herbert von Karajan
ARTISTS: Kathleen Ferrier   Elisabeth Schwarzkopf   Nicolai Gedda   Heinz Rehfuss

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: mono recordings 1952-1953 - complete / 1950 highlights

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