Well, since it’s Sunday, here’s a surprise

[ by Charles Cameron — bright and dancing Bach — a cantata to give you the fresh spirit of Il Gardellino, then the great Mass in B Minor in their brilliant version ]

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J.S. Bach: Cantata “Wir müssen durch viel Trübsal” BWV 146:

This recording fairly leaps out at you, it’s so crisp and dance-like! Brilliant!

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And then, enthused by that magnificent cantata, here’s the B Minor Mass in all its glory, with voices that have been hidden, unheard, in all the other renderings I’ve heard — and I love the Corboz, for instance — and those inner voices, clear as bells..

And if your Sunday evening is almost gone, bookmark this post and return to it when you have time — such a fine performance of one of the three or four greatest sacred choral works in the Western tradition!