![]() ![]() For this major project, which he probably never heard performed, Bach reworked a lot of his older music, both sacred and profane. But written towards the end of his life, it seems to have been a way of summing up all he was musically and spiritually capable of – of leaving something for posterity – after a lifetime of professional underappreciation and what must have felt like ephemeral drudgery. No one knows for sure why Bach, a lifelong Lutheran, chose to make a full Latin setting of the Catholic Mass. So as part of his 80th birthday celebrations, it's no surprise that he has chosen to conduct his Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists in a performance of the Mass in B minor, widely regarded as the summit of Bach's religious music. Sir John Eliot Gardiner has spent a large part of his musical life immersed in Bach's liturgical music and is acknowledged as one of its foremost interpreters. ![]()
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