Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic Unlock the Editor\u2019s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.The first publisher of Bach\u2019s Mass in B Minor, Hans Georg N\u00e4geli, called it the \u201cgreatest musical work of art of all times and peoples\u201d. Assembled from a variety of sources, eclectic in its styles and origins, the Mass adds up to a strangely unified whole and is one of the masterpieces of the Baroque.Getting to the heart of it promises untold years of discovery. For Rapha\u00ebl Pichon and his early music group Pygmalion the journey began back in 2013 and this new recording has been a labour of love, maturing over a decade of performances.Pygmalion\u2019s choir and instrumentalists are expert in the Baroque style (not to mention their recordings of later music, which have taken them as far as Wagner). Pichon always has something personal and imaginative to say and his take on the Mass in B Minor is no exception.The result is hyper-emotional. Speeds tend to be at the extremes, the second \u201cKyrie eleison\u201d slow with devotional awe, the ensuing \u201cGloria\u201d headlong in its enthusiasm. A tear-laden \u201cEt incarnatus est\u201d leads to an urgent \u201cCrucifixus\u201d of violent accents, nails being hammered into the cross. Everything is vivid and deeply felt, but simpler performances may speak to the listener more naturally.The movements featuring the solo singers are fine without exception, exquisitely accompanied and well sung. Julie Roset is the pure-voiced soprano; noble Beth Taylor and harder-toned, but authoritative Lucile Richardot share the mezzo and alto solos; and the expressive Emiliano Gonzalez Toro and Christian Immler are the tenor and baritone.\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2606\u2606\u2018Bach: Mass in B Minor\u2019 is released by Harmonia Mundi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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