Münchener Bach-Orchester, Karl Richter: J.S. Bach: Mass in B Minor, BWV 232 3LP

Bach’s Mass in B Minor (BWV 232) is his only fully set Latin Mass ordinarium. Composed during the final years of his life, it combines newly composed movements with revised earlier ones – a musical synthesis of his oeuvre and a high point of Baroque music. Impressing with its cohesive sound, clear interpretation and outstanding soloists, Karl Richter’s 1961 recording of the B Minor Mass with the Munich Bach Choir and Orchestra is still regarded today as a legendary reference recording. Marking the centenary of Richter’s birth, Deutsche Grammophon and Emil Berliner Studios return to the 2-track master tapes for the first ever pure analogue release of this benchmark recording, adding the title to DG’s celebrated ‘AAA’ audiophile vinyl series “Original Source”. This 3-LP box-set with a lift-off lid also features a 20-page booklet containing original liner notes, lyrics and facsimiles of the original recording logs, a facsimile reproduction of the archive document of the “Archiv Produktion” as included in the original release with tracklisting on the back, and a certificate with a text by Rainer Maillard & Sidney C. Meyer (Emil Berliner Studios) on the Original Source Series: “From 1960s Stereo Master to 2020s Pure Analogue Vinyl”.

Tracklist:

LP 1

Side A

1. I. Kyrie: No. 1, Kyrie eleison (Chorus)

2. I. Kyrie: No. 2, Christe eleison (Soprano I, II)

3. I. Kyrie: No. 3, Kyrie eleison (Chorus)

Side B

1. II. Gloria: No. 1, Gloria in excelsis Deo – No. 2, Et in terra pax (Chorus)

2. II. Gloria: No. 3, Laudamus te (Soprano II)

3. II. Gloria: No. 4, Gratias agimus tibi (Chorus)

LP 2

Side C

1. II. Gloria: No. 5, Domine Deus (Soprano I, Tenor)

2. II. Gloria: No. 6, Qui tollis peccata mundi (Chorus)

3. II. Gloria: No. 7, Qui sedes ad dexteram Patris (Alto)

4. II. Gloria: No. 8, Quoniam tu solus sanctus (Bass)

5. II. Gloria: No. 9, Cum Sancto Spiritu (Chorus)

Side D

1. III. Credo: No. 1, Credo in unum Deum (Chorus)

2. III. Credo: No. 2, Patrem omnipotentem (Chorus)

3. III. Credo: No. 3, Et in unum Dominum (Soprano I, Alto)

4. III. Credo: No. 4, Et incarnatus est (Chorus)

5. III. Credo: No. 5, Crucifixus etiam pro nobis (Chorus)

6. III. Credo: No. 6, Et resurrexit tertia die (Chorus)

LP 3

Side E

1. III. Credo: No. 7, Et in Spiritum Sanctum (Bass)

2. III. Credo: No. 8, Confiteor unum baptisma (Chorus)

3. III. Credo: No. 9, Et exspecto resurrectionem (Chorus)

4. IV. Sanctus: No. 1, Sanctus, Domine Deus (Chorus)

Side F

1. IV. Sanctus: No. 2, Osanna in excelsis (Chorus)

2. V. Benedictus: No. 1, Benedictus qui venit (Tenor)

3. V. Benedictus: No. 2, Osanna in excelsis (Chorus)

4. VI. Agnus Dei: No. 1, Agnus Dei (Alto)

5. VI. Agnus Dei: No. 2, Dona nobis pacem (Chorus)