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Reference Recording: Matchless Bach Mass Box

David Vernier

Artistic Quality:

  • 9

Sound Quality:

  • 10
Pygmalion is a Paris-based choir and period-instrument orchestra founded by […]
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Recording Details:

Reference Recording: This one; Lutheran Masses only: Cantus Cölln (Harmonia Mundi)

  • BACH, J.S.:
    Missa BWV 232 (1733 version); Missa in F major BWV 233; Missa in A major BWV 234; Missa in G minor BWV 235; Missa in G major BWV 236; Motets: O Jesu Christ, meins lebens Licht BWV 118; Der Gerechte kommt um (Bach/Kuhnau)

    Soloists: Eugénie Warnier, Anna Reinhold (soprano); Magid El-Bushra, Terry Wey, Carlos Mena (alto); Emiliano Gonzalez-Toro; Sydney Fierro (baritone); Christian Immler, Konstantin Wolff (bass)

  • Conductor: Pichon, Raphaël
  • Orchestra: Pygmalion
  • Record Label: Alpha - 816
  • Medium: CD

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