No 107 The Mass in B minor Transformed

J. S. Bach: Missa Miniatura, eingerichtet nach der h-Moll-Messe, BWV 232, von Elina Albach

Künstler: Marie Luise Werneburg (soprano), Viola Blache (soprano), Alex Potter (contratenor), Tobias Knaus (contratenor), Raphael Höhn (tenor), Tobias Berndt (bass), Thomas Halle (narrator), CONTINUUM, Johanna Bartz (transverse flute), Anna Schall (cornett), Joosten Ellée (violin), Liam Byrne (viola da gamba), Bertram Burkert (e-guitar), Daniel Rosin (violoncello), direction: Elina Albach (harpsichord, organ)

Harpsichordist Elina Albach and her ensemble Continuum have created a sensation at numerous festivals in recent years with their unconventional arrangements of a wide variety of early music works. Elina Albach has transformed Johann Sebastian Bach’s famous B Minor Mass into a spellbinding chamber version. Besides six vocalists, the performance involves just seven instrumentalists, who divide the parts of this complex score between themselves. The result is a whole new way of hearing Bach’s opus ultimum. Between the musical sections are poetic reflections by the Swiss writer, Jürg Halter.