Bach - Messe en si BWV 232 - "Raphaël Pichon, Pygmalion, Lea Desandre" скачать в хорошем качестве

Bach - Messe en si BWV 232 - "Raphaël Pichon, Pygmalion, Lea Desandre"

Raphaël Pichon conducts the Ensemble Pygmalion in the Mass in B B Bach, with Joanne Lunn, Lea Desandre, Lucile Richardot, Emiliano Gonzalez Toro and Christian Immler. Concert recorded on Friday May 24, 2019 at the Philharmonie de Paris. In the last years of his life, Johann Sebastian Bach completed a series of works which constituted a magnificent musical testament to all the styles he practiced, whether counterpoint with The Musical Offering (1747), the Canonical Variations for organ (1747-1748) and The Art of Fugue (1742-1750), or religious music with the Mass in B minor (1746-1749). But unlike the other contrapuntal monuments cited above, the Mass was not actually composed between 1746 and 1749. Apart from two sections of the Creed probably conceived in 1749, Bach reworked pieces he had previously written in various circumstances. He achieved a tour de force by creating a new and original work from a composite material. The composer also abandoned the da capo aria and the recitative, forms he had used extensively in the cantatas and the Passions. Thus, he delivers to posterity not his conception of what a mass should be – a paradoxical attitude for a composer deeply attached to the Lutheran rite – but his vision of religious music. The Mass in B minor thus constitutes an admirable synthesis of the different styles he practiced during his life. The genesis of the Mass therefore extended over more than twenty years. A first version of the Credo was probably executed for the consecration of the Saint-Thomas school in Leipzig, on June 5, 1732. A year later, on April 21, 1733, the Kyrie and the Gloria were created on the occasion of the vows fidelity of the new Elector of Saxony, Augustus III. Four months after this performance, Bach sent the sovereign the manuscript preceded by the following petition: "I offer myself with the most conscientious obedience to demonstrate on all occasions my indefatigable zeal by composing sacred music as well as for the orchestra each whenever Your Majesty will do me the grace to require it. The late development of the Mass in B minor explains why it was never performed in its entirety during Bach's lifetime. After the death of the cantor, the autograph was passed on to his younger son Carl Philipp Emanuel who, in 1786, revised the Credo in order to "modernize" it. While excerpts were given regularly between 1811 and 1834, notably by the Berlin Academy of Singing, it was not until 1859 that this work was performed in its entirety (in German translation!), under the direction of Carl Riedel.