ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
PHILIPPE HERREWEGHE
Missa in h-moll BWV 232 (B-minor Mass)
(version 1733 Kyrie-Gloria)
Dorothee Mields soprano
Margot Oitzinger soprano
Alex Potter countertenor
Guy Cutting tenor
Peter Kooij bass
Collegium Vocale Gent
Philippe Herreweghe
Private Concert
Johann Sebastian Bach “composed” his Mass in B Minor in his last years, although most of it was much older, some of it written as early as 1724. Bach never witnessed a performance of the piece in its entirety, but it is doubtful if it was even intended for use in a service. It was simply too long for either Lutheran Leipzig or Dresden’s Catholic court. But the question of why it was composed is not important, given its reputation as “one of the greatest and most universal artworks in music history”.
Concert exclusively for the Friends of Flagey