Listening to Bach’s magisterial Mass in B Minor raises questions about perfection in music. What does it mean when nothing is out of place, everything is developed in exactly the right way and the journey that the listener is taken on is deep and profound?
The Mass is arguably Bach’s greatest work – along with the St Matthew Passion, it is the work on the grandest scale. Yet such ranking of Bach’s output remains unusually difficult, so good was all …
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