Bach's Mass in B minor at the Salzburg Festival

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Bach's High Mass in B minor at the Salzburg Festival lists the performances of the High Mass in B minor for solos, choir, orchestra and organ (BWV 232) by Johann Sebastian Bach at the Salzburg Festival . The work is performed there regularly in exceptional concerts by well-known ensembles, choirs, conductors and soloists.

The performance location changes, the classic venues of the Salzburg Festival are used .

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Bach's work has been interpreted three times in Salzburg by classical symphony orchestras , the Vienna and Berlin Philharmonics , and three times by original sound ensembles. The interpretations were also very different in terms of scoring, tempos and intonation. The grand and lofty style of Karajan or Muti contrasts sharply with the intimate and brisk performance of the Czech conductor Václav Luks in 2015. The press wrote about his interpretation:

“The movements of church music in the 'Stile antico', some of which are traditionally noted in particularly long values ​​and which were psychologically responsible for the exceptionally broad tempi up to Karl Richter , are now felt by historically versed young interpreters like Václav Luks in a particularly fluid alla breve pulse . To do this, he takes a little more time with some modern numbers. Above all, however, it does not occur to Luks to spell out the Kyrie fugue theme right away. Rather, the brilliant vocal and instrumental powers of his Collegium 1704 (with about two dozen singers) are governed by a flowing legato, which does not contradict style, but gives the performance suppleness and elegance. [...] Grateful cheers. "

- Walter Weidringer : Salzburg Festival: Spiritual sound theater, entwined with riddles. Die Presse (Vienna), July 21, 2015

Performances of the High Mass in B minor

Date venue	Orchestra choir conductor	Instrumental soloists	Soloists	Soloists
August 15, 1932 Festspielhaus	Vienna Philharmonic, Vienna State Opera Choir Clemens Krauss	Franz Schütz Organ Karl Pilss Continuo	Eva Hadrabová soprano Sigrid Onegin alto	Helge Roswaenge tenor Josef von Manowarda Bass
August 27, 1985 Large Festival Hall	Berliner Philharmoniker Singverein of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde Wien Helmuth Froschauer choir master by Herbert von Karajan		Kathleen Battle Soprano Agnes Baltsa Alt	Gösta Winbergh tenor José van Dam bass
August 15, 1995 Large university auditorium	Baroque Orchestra Stuttgart Chamber Choir Stuttgart Frieder Bernius	Jörg-Michael Schwarz violin Konrad Hünteler transverse flute Martin Stadler oboe d'amore Ulrich Huebner Corno da caccia	Ruth Ziesak Sopranus I Andreas Scholl Sopran II, alto	Christoph Prégardien tenor Gotthold Schwarz bass
June 11, 2000 Large Festival Hall	Vienna Philharmonic Arnold Schoenberg Choir Erwin Ortner Chorus Master Riccardo Muti	Anton Holzapfel organ	Sylvia McNair soprano Angelika Kirchschlager mezzo-soprano	Giuseppe Sabbatini tenor Simon Keenlyside baritone
May 30, 2004 Large Festival Theater	Bach Collegium Stuttgart Gächinger Kantorei Stuttgart Helmuth Rilling		Sibylla Rubens Soprano I Anne-Carolyn Schlueter Soprano II Anke Vondung Alt	James Taylor tenor Christian Gerhaher bass Franz-Josef Selig bass
July 19, 2015 Kollegienkirche	Collegium 1704 Collegium vocale 1704 Václav Luks		Hana Blažíková soprano I Sophie Harmsen soprano II Alex Potter alto	Václav Čížek tenor Tomáš Král bass Marián Krejčík bass

See also

• Mozart matinees at the Salzburg Festival 2012 to 2016

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• Salzburg Festival , archive query

Remarks

1. ↑ As part of the Salzburg Whitsun Festival
2. ↑ As part of the Salzburg Whitsun Festival
3. ^ As part of the Overture spiritual of the Salzburg Festival.