Culmination: Mass in B Minor
Date & Location
Composer
Johann Sebastian Bach
Mass in B Minor, BWV 232
Director’s Series
One of the crowning glories of Bach’s career and considered by many the Consort’s trademark piece, the Mass in B Minor is a work that is truly in a class by itself. Completed during the last years of the composer’ s life, the Mass brings together a range of techniques and musical forms that offer both a compendium of Baroque style and of Bach’s own lifework. Ending the celebration of the Consort’s 40th anniversary, it stands among that rarified category of masterpieces that are truly inexhaustible and forever new.
...Director’s Series
One of the crowning glories of Bach’s career and considered by many the Consort’s trademark piece, the Mass in B Minor is a work that is truly in a class by itself. Completed during the last years of the composer’ s life, the Mass brings together a range of techniques and musical forms that offer both a compendium of Baroque style and of Bach’s own lifework. Ending the celebration of the Consort’s 40th anniversary, it stands among that rarified category of masterpieces that are truly inexhaustible and forever new.
Gwendolyn Toth is the director of ARTEK, an early music ensemble acclaimed for its recording of Monteverdi’s opera Orfeo. She is a harpsichordist and organist who performs and records regularly on historic organs of the Netherlands.
