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Title: Lacks power - too fast
Review: While this performance is brilliantly sung and played, the Bach Mass In B Minor demands more than that. Various choruses (e.g. the Gloria, the Sanctus, etc.) require more shear vocal heft than this one voice per part recording can muster. As a result the sense of grandeur that is so glorious in this great work is unfortunately missing. The other choruses seem to work quite well though.Another problem is that often conductors and singers think that faster is often better and that happens in this recording as well. The Gloria and the Cum Sancto Spiritu are sung so fast that the beauty is lost and rather than hearing a spirited and bouncy chorus that absolutely swings, you hear a race to the finish in an attempt (I suppose) to show how expert the singers are in being able to sing it so fast.I find I prefer a recording with larger forces. Consider the Fasolis which only uses about 25 voices but captures the Mass in all its grandeur.
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