Mass in B minor
Johann Sebastian Bach · International Baroque Days Melk Abbey 2024
Bach’s Mass in B minor with Stefan Gottfried, Concentus Musicus Wien, the Wiltener Sängerknaben and Michael Schade – the opening concert of the 2024 festival in the abbey church of Melk.
The International Baroque Days Melk Abbey opened their 2024 festival on 17 May with Johann Sebastian Bach’s Mass in B minor. In his final years Bach assembled the work from movements written over almost a quarter of a century – his only complete setting of the Ordinary of the Mass.
Stefan Gottfried conducts Concentus Musicus Wien and the Wiltener Sängerknaben (chorus master: Johannes Stecher); the soloists are Trine Lund, Marianne Beate Kielland, Michael Schade and Georg Nigl.
Photos: © Daniela Matejschek
Facts
- Work
- Johann Sebastian Bach: Mass in B minor, BWV 232
- Venue and recording
- Abbey church of MelkInternational Baroque Days Melk Abbeyopening concert, 17 May 2024
- First broadcast
- ORF III, 19 May 2024
- Running time
- 107 min.
Credits
- Conductor
- Stefan Gottfried
- Soloists
- Trine Lund (soprano)Marianne Beate Kielland (alto)Michael Schade (tenor)Georg Nigl (bass)
- Ensembles
- Concentus Musicus WienWiltener Sängerknaben (chorus master: Johannes Stecher)
- Directing concept
- Volker Werner
- TV director
- Karsten Dönneweg
- Editing
- Abel Czinger, Volker Werner
- Camera
- Heribert Senegacnik, Hannah Hofstätter, Thomas Kosnar, Peter Penz, Wolfgang Rauch, Hermann Weitlaner
- Lighting design
- Patrick Suppan
- Sound
- Philipp Treiber
- Editorial
- Veronika ZimmermannEditor (ORF III): Patrick EichlerCommissioning editor (ORF III): Theresa Selzer
- Production manager and executive producer
- Martin Pichl
- Co-production
- SCARLATTI Arts international and ORF III
- Supported by
- State of Lower Austria, Department of Art and Culture
- World sales
- ORF-Enterprise
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