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Interesting Story on the Manuscript of Bach’s Great Mass in B Minor

December 5th, 2009
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b00p2cq0_512_288Many regard J.S. Bach’s B Minor Mass to be among the very best, if not the best, music ever written. I would tend to agree. There is an interesting BBC radio show on the manuscript, one of which is held by a library in Berlin. You can listen to it here. Thanks to Bach fan, TN, for the link to the program. But, ahem, “et incarnatus est” does not mean, “and he became flesh.” And, you have to put up with the post-modernist twaddle at the end of the show, where, ironically, in the background is the sound of the praise of the Great and Eternal Almighty God, we have an announcer prattling on totally ignoring the meaning of the Mass in B Minor. And so it goes. But… Bach gets the last word after all.

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  1. Cory Howell
    December 6th, 2009 at 13:31 | #1

    I am greatly anticipating singing the B-minor Mass the first weekend in March 2010, with Helmut Rilling conducting. I’m a tenor in the Nashville Symphony Chorus, and we are currently preparing for this exciting concert! What a great work. (Y’know, Pastor McCain, Nashville isn’t that long a drive from St. Louis…)

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