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)