J S Bach: Mass in B minor - Pygmalion / Raphaël Pichon
HMM 902754.55 (Harmonia Mundi, CD, 2 discs)
FIRST RELEASE (4 April 2025)
Playing time: 107'21"
Tracks: 12 + 15
Booklet pages: 44
℗ 2025 Harmonia Mundi Musique sas
© 2025 Harmonia Mundi Musique sas
Main country of recording: France
Country of manufacture: Netherlands
Reviewer: Gerald Fenech
Review of J S Bach: Mass in B minor - Pygmalion / Raphaël Pichon published on 21 March 2025
Julie Roset, soprano (CD1 tracks 2 and 8; CD2 track 3)
Beth Taylor, mezzo-soprano (CD1 tracks 2 and 6)
Lucile Richardot, alto (CD1 track 10; CD2 tracks 3 and 14)
Emiliano Gonzalez Toro, tenor (CD1 track 8; CD2 track 12)
Christian Immler, bass
Pygmalion
Sophie Gent, concertmaster
Raphaël Pichon, conductor
J S Bach:
Mass in B minor, BWV 232
CD1
I: Missa: Kyrie, Gloria
1 Kyrie eleison I
2 Christe eleison
3 Kyrie eleison II
4 Gloria in excelsis Deo
5 Et in terra pax
6 Laudamus te
7 Gratias agimus tibi
8 Dominus Deus
9 Qui tollis peccata mundi
10 Qui sedes ad dextram Patris
11 Quoniam tu solus sanctus
12 Cum Sancto Spiritu
CD2
II: Symbolum Nicenum: Credo
1 Credo in unum Deum
2 Patrem omnipotentem
3 Et in unum Dominum
4 Et incarnatus est
5 Crucifixus
6 Et resurrexit
7 Et in Spiritum Sanctum Dominum
8 Confiteor
9 Et expecto
III: Sanctus
10 Sanctus. Pleni sunt cœli
IV: Osanna, Benedictus, Agnus Dei, Dona nobis pacem
11 Osanna in excelsis
12 Benedictus
13 Osanna in excelsis
14 Agnus Dei
15 Dona nobis pacem
The Mass in B minor is one of the supreme peaks of Bach's music. Raphaël Pichon and his ensemble Pygmalion explore this universe which gives utterance to the mysteries of incarnation and death.
Recorded in April 2024 at the Cathédrale Notre-Dame-du-Liban, Paris V, France.