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Mass in B minor discography
Recordings of J.S. Bach's BWV 232
Recordings of J.S. Bach's BWV 232
The listing shows recordings of the Mass in B minor, BWV 232, by Johann Sebastian Bach. The selection is taken from the 281 recordings listed on the Bach Cantatas Website , beginning with the first recording by a symphony orchestra and choir to match, conducted by Albert Coates. Beginning in the late 1960s, historically informed performances paved the way for recordings with smaller groups, boys choirs and ensembles playing period instruments, and eventually to recordings using the one-voice-on-a-vocal-part scoring first argued for by Joshua Rifkin in 1982.
History
The work was first recorded by symphonic choirs and orchestras. From the late 1960s, historically informed performances (HIP) tried to adhere more to the sounds of the composer's lifetime, who typically wrote for boys choirs and for comparatively small orchestras of Baroque instruments, often now called "period instruments". Some scholars believe that Bach used only one singer for a vocal part in the choral movements, termed "one voice per part" (OVPP). On some of these recordings, the solo singer is reinforced in choral movements with a larger orchestra by a ripieno singer (OVPP+R).
The first complete recording of the work was conducted by Albert Coates in 1929. Robert Shaw led the first American recording in 1947. Some recordings are documents of live concerts, such as a 1968 performance conducted by Karl Richter at the Moscow Conservatory Grand Hall. The same year, the first HIP recording appeared, conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt, followed by Johan van der Meer's version with the Groningse Bachvereniging in 1975 which was recorded live in Utrecht at the Holland Festival. The first OVPP recording appeared in 1982, conducted by Joshua Rifkin.
Table of selected recordings
The sortable listing is taken from the selection provided by Aryeh Oron on the Bach-Cantatas website.
Soloists Bach composed the work for five soloists: soprano I and II, alto, tenor and bass. The soloists are listed in the table in the order SATB.
Some recordings arranged the music for four soloists, the movements in which soprano II (SII) is requested, are divided, sung by soprano I (SI) and alto (A).
- Christe eleison: A for SII in the duet with SI
- Laudamus te: SI or A in the aria for SII
Some recordings divide the two bass solos on two singers because of their very different tessitura:
- Quoniam tu solus sanctus: the aria requires a bass with a strong low register
- Et in spiritum sanctum: the aria requires a bass with a high range which would today be termed a baritone
The composition has a movement for two choirs SATB, Osanna. In recordings with one voice per part (OVPP), the soloists are normally listed in the order SSAATTBB. For some recordings, only the singers doing solo work are named.
Choir type
- Large choirs (red background): Large (unspecified), Bach (choir dedicated to Bach's music, founded in the mid-20th century, Boys (choir of all male voices), Radio (choir of a broadcaster), Symphony (choir related to a symphony orchestra)
- Medium-size choirs, such as Chamber, Chorale (choir dedicated mostly to church music), Motet
- One voice per part (green background): OVPP or OVPP+R (with ripienists reinforcing the soloists in some chorale movements)
Orchestra type
- Large orchestras (red background): Bach (orchestra dedicated to Bach's music, founded in the mid-20th century), Radio (symphony orchestra of a broadcaster), Symphony
- Chamber orchestra
- Orchestra on period instruments (green background)
Table
- Elisabeth Schumann
- Margaret Balfour
- Walter Widdop
- Friedrich Schorr
- Anne McKnight
- June Gardner
- Lydia Summers
- Lucius Metz
- Paul Matthen
- Emmy Loose
- Hilde Ceska
- Gertrud Burgsthaler-Schuster
- Anton Dermota
- Alfred Poell
- Suzanne Danco
- Kathleen Ferrier
- Peter Pears
- Bruce Boyce
- Norman Walker
- Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
- Marga Höffgen
- Nicolai Gedda
- Heinz Rehfuss
- Gunthild Weber
- Margherita de Landi
- Helmut Krebs
- Karl Wolfram
- Ingeborg Reichelt
- Elisabeth Fellner
- Helmut Krebs
- Franz Kelch
- Pierrette Alarie
- Nan Merriman
- Léopold Simoneau
- Gustav Neidlinger
- Adele Addison
- Saramae Endich
- Florence Kopleff
- Mallory Walker
- Asa Barberian
- Maria Stader
- Hertha Töpper
- Ernst Haefliger
- Kieth Engen
- Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
- Agnes Giebel
- Janet Baker
- Nicolai Gedda
- Hermann Prey
- Franz Crass
- Rotraud Hansmann
- Emiko Iiyama
- Helen Watts
- Kurt Equiluz
- Max van Egmond
- Ursula Buckel
- Hertha Töpper
- Ernst Haefliger
- Peter van der Bilt
- Soloist of the Tölzer Knabenchor
- Kevin Smith
- Marius van Altena
- Max van Egmond
- Gundula Janowitz
- Christa Ludwig
- Peter Schreier
- Robert Kerns
- Karl Ridderbusch
- Arleen Augér
- Julia Hamari
- Adalbert Kraus
- Wolfgang Schöne
- Siegmund Nimsgern
- Helen Donath
- Brigitte Fassbaender
- Claes-Håkan Ahnsjö
- Roland Hermann
- Robert Holl
- Judith Nelson
- Julianne Baird
- Jeffrey Dooley
- Drew Minter
- Frank Hoffmeister
- Edmund Brownless
- Jon Opalach
- Andrew Walker Schultze
- Emma Kirkby
- Emily Van Evera
- Panito Iconomou (boy alto)
- Christian Immler (boy alto)
- Michael Kilian (boy alto)
- Rogers Covey-Crump
- David Thomas
- Isabelle Poulenard
- Guillemette Laurens
- René Jacobs
- John Elwes
- Max van Egmond
- Harry van der Kamp
- Nancy Argenta
- Michael Chance
- Elizabeth Wilcock
- Stephen Varcoe
- Carol Hall
- Mary Nichols
- Mitsuko Shirai
- Hildegard Laurich
- Andreas Schmidt
- Sylvia McNair
- Delores Ziegler
- Marietta Simpson
- John Aler
- William Stone
- Thomas Paul
- Felicity Lott
- Anne Sofie von Otter
- Hans Peter Blochwitz
- William Shimell
- Gwynne Howell
- Hillevi Martinpelto
- Bernarda Fink
- Axel Köhler
- Christoph Prégardien
- Matthias Goerne
- Franz-Josef Selig
- Nancy Argenta
- Catherine Denley
- Mark Tucker
- Stephen Varcoe
- Christine Schäfer
- Ingeborg Danz
- Markus Schäfer
- Thomas Quasthoff
- Barbara Schlick
- Kai Wessel
- Guy de Mey
- Klaus Mertens
- Roberta Alexander
- Ruth Ziesak
- Jard van Nes
- Keith Lewis
- David Wilson-Johnson
- Johannette Zomer
- Véronique Gens
- Andreas Scholl
- Christoph Prégardien
- Peter Kooy
- Hanno Müller-Brachmann
- Boy sopranos: Matthias Ritter, Manuel Mrasek
- Boy altos: Matthias Schloderer, Maximilian Fraas
- Anthony Rolfe-Johnson
- Michael George
- Gundula Anders
- Mona Spägele
- Ursula Fiedler
- Jürgen Banholzer
- Bernhard Landauer
- Hermann Oswald
- Knut Schoch
- Johannes-Christoph Happel
- Stephan MacLeod
- Tamara Matthews
- Rosa Lamoreaux
- Marietta Simpson
- Frederick Urrey
- William Sharp
- Daniel Lichti
- Hellen Kwon
- Hedwig Fassbender
- Peter Straka
- Wolfgang Newerla
- Peter Lika
- Sibylla Rubens
- Juliane Banse
- Ingeborg Danz
- James Taylor
- Andreas Schmidt
- Thomas Quasthoff
- Ruth Holton
- Matthias Rexroth
- Christoph Genz
- Klaus Mertens
- Elisabeth Hermans
- Midori Suzuki
- Patrizia Hardt
- Petra Noskaiová
- Max Ciolek
- Knut Schoch
- Jan van der Crabben
- Stephan MacLeod
- Johanna Koslowsky
- Mechthild Bach
- Monika Mauch
- Susanne Rydén
- Elisabeth Popien
- Henning Voss
- Hans Jörg Mammel
- Wilfried Jochens
- Stephan Schreckenberger
- Wolf Matthias Friedrich
- Mechthild Bach
- Daniel Taylor
- Marcus Ullmann
- Raimund Nolte
- Marlis Petersen
- Stella Doufexis
- Anke Vondung
- Lothar Odinius
- Christian Gerhaher
- Franz-Josef Selig
- Carolyn Sampson
- Rachel Nicholls
- Robin Blaze
- Gerd Türk
- Peter Kooy
- Gerlinde Sämann
- Elisabeth Hermans
- Patrizia Hardt
- Petra Noskaiová
- Bernhard Hunziker
- Christoph Genz
- Marcus Niedermeyr
- Jan van der Crabben
- Dorothee Mields
- Johannette Zomer
- Patrick Van Goethem
- Jan Kobow
- Peter Kooy
- Dorothee Mields
- Johannette Zomer
- Matthew White
- Charles Daniels
- Peter Harvey
- Lucy Crowe
- Julia Lezhneva
- Joanne Lunn
- Blandine Staskiewicz
- Nathalie Stutzmann
- Terry Wey
- Colin Balzer
- Markus Brutscher
- Christian Immler
- Luca Tittoto
- Susan Hamilton
- Cecilia Osmond
- Margot Oitzinger
- Thomas Hobbs
- Matthew Brook
- ripienists:
- Nicola Corbishley
- Katie Tretheway
- Annemieke Cantor
- Christopher Watson
- Christopher Adams
- Reglint Bühler
- Susanne Krumbiegel
- Susanne Langner
- Martin Lattke
- Markus Flaig
Notes
References
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