How do you categorise such an extensive piece of music, such as the Mass in B minor, the Hohe Messe? Jos van Veldhoven and various musicians from the Netherlands Bach Society, who performed the work for All of Bach, make an attempt.
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Netherlands Bach Society
Jos van Veldhoven, conductor
Hana Blažíková, soprano 1
Anna Reinhold, soprano 2
David Erler, alto
Thomas Hobbs, tenor
Peter Harvey, bass
J.S. Bach: Matthäus-Passion, BWV 244 / Zweiter Teil — No. 49 «Aus Liebe will mein Heiland sterben» · Ann Monoyios · English Baroque Soloists · John Eliot Gardiner
Bach, J.S.: St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244
℗ 1989 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Released on: 1989-01-01
Producer: Dr. Andreas Holschneider
Producer: Charlotte Kriesch
Producer, Recording Producer: Karl-August Naegler
Studio Personnel, Balance Engineer, Editor: Ulrich Vette
Studio Personnel, Recording Engineer: Klaus Behrens
Studio Personnel, Editor: Werner Roth
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
Author: Christian Friedrich Henrici
J.S. Bach: St. John Passion, BWV 245 / Part One — No.1 Chorus: «Herr, unser Herrscher» · The Monteverdi Choir · English Baroque Soloists · John Eliot Gardiner
Bach, J.S.: St. John Passion
℗ 1986 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Released on: 1986-01-01
Producer: Dr. Andreas Holschneider
Producer: Charlotte Kriesch
Producer, Recording Producer, Studio Personnel, Balance Engineer: Karl-August Naegler
Studio Personnel, Recording Engineer: Wolf-Dieter Karwatky
Studio Personnel, Recording Engineer: Gregor Zielinsky
Studio Personnel, Editor: Gernot Von Schultzendorff
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
Author: Anonymous
Live:
Wilten Boys Choir
Academia Jacobus Stainer
Soloists: Wilten Boys, Bernhard Berchtold, Daniel Schmutzhard, Philippe Spiegel, Oliver Sailer, Patrik Reiter, Philipp Meraner, Sebastian Mair, David Kerber;
Leitung: Johannes Stecher
Osterfestival Tirol 25.3.2016, Congress Innsbruck Saal Tirol
Andras Schiff — Piano
BWV 812 813 814 815 816 817
The French Suites, BWV 812--817, are six suites which Johann Sebastian Bach wrote for the clavier (harpsichord or clavichord) between the years of 1722 and 1725. The suites were later given the name French (first recorded usage by Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg in 1762) as a means of contrast with the English Suites (whose title is likewise a later appellation). The name was popularised by Bachs biographer Johann Nikolaus Forkel, who wrote in his 1802 biography of Bach, «One usually calls them French Suites because they are written in the French manner.» This claim, however, is inaccurate: like Bachs other suites, they follow a largely Italian convention.
There is no surviving definitive manuscript of these suites, and ornamentation varies both in type and in degree across manuscripts.