Bach: Mass in B Minor

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Composed in spurts of productivity over the last 20 years of Bach’s life, the Mass in B Minor was not completed until just before the composer’s death, making it one of his last great works. It is performed here on original period instruments by the Bach Ensemble, directed by musicologist Joshua Rifkin, who compiled a new edition of the score specifically for this recording.

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The CD of this album is available to purchase at ArkivMusic.

Composed in spurts of productivity over the last 20 years of Bach’s life, the Mass in B Minor was not completed until just before the composer’s death, making it one of his last great works. It is performed here on original period instruments by the Bach Ensemble, directed by musicologist Joshua Rifkin, who compiled a new edition of the score specifically for this recording.

ProductionCredits

PRODUCTION CREDITS
Production and music supervision: Marc J. Aubort and Joanna Nickrenz
Engineering: Elite Recordings, Inc.
Recorded December 31, 1981, to January 11, 1982, at Rutgers Presbyterian Church, New York
Production coordinator: Elise Keen
Director: Keith Holzman

Original album package credits: Norm Ung, Ron Coro
Illustration, Design: Norm Ung

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79036

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1disc
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Joshua Rifkin
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MUSICIANS
The Bach Ensemble:
Judith Nelson, Julianne Baird, soprano
Jeffery Dooley, Drew Minter, countertenor
Frank Hoffmeister, Edmund Brownless, tenor
Jan Opalach, Andrew Walker Schultze, bass
Joshua Rifkin, director

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  • Joshua Rifkin's 1970 Nonesuch recording of Scott Joplin piano rags—which ignited a national passion for ragtime jazz and, wrote New York magazine, "created, almost alone, the Scott Joplin revival" of the early '70s—has been inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. Recordings in the Hall of Fame are at least twenty-five years old and exhibit qualitative or historical significance, determined by a committee of eminent and knowledgeable professionals from all branches of the recording arts, with final approval by the Recording Academy's National Board of Trustees.

  • Four decades ago, Nonesuch Records released Joshua Rifkin's recordings of Scott Joplin's Piano Rags that went on to ignite a national passion for ragtime jazz and "created, almost alone, the Scott Joplin revival," as New York magazine wrote. On January 30, Rifkin will make his debut at New York's (Le) Poisson Rouge performing the music of Joplin and J.S. Bach in celebration of the 40th anniversary of the album.

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  • About This Album

    The CD of this album is available to purchase at ArkivMusic.

    Composed in spurts of productivity over the last 20 years of Bach’s life, the Mass in B Minor was not completed until just before the composer’s death, making it one of his last great works. It is performed here on original period instruments by the Bach Ensemble, directed by musicologist Joshua Rifkin, who compiled a new edition of the score specifically for this recording.

    Credits

    MUSICIANS
    The Bach Ensemble:
    Judith Nelson, Julianne Baird, soprano
    Jeffery Dooley, Drew Minter, countertenor
    Frank Hoffmeister, Edmund Brownless, tenor
    Jan Opalach, Andrew Walker Schultze, bass
    Joshua Rifkin, director

    PRODUCTION CREDITS
    Production and music supervision: Marc J. Aubort and Joanna Nickrenz
    Engineering: Elite Recordings, Inc.
    Recorded December 31, 1981, to January 11, 1982, at Rutgers Presbyterian Church, New York
    Production coordinator: Elise Keen
    Director: Keith Holzman

    Original album package credits: Norm Ung, Ron Coro
    Illustration, Design: Norm Ung