Carus: CARUS83211

“Frieder Bernius gives us a Mass which neither sits obediently in the groove of seasoned reverence nor resorts to well worn and predictable period reflexes. It is a reading whose invigorating momentum is underpinned by a confident bass presence and an immediacy which resolutely ignores the heavy burden of posterity from which performances regularly suffer...Bernius knowingly approaches the Latin text as a means of liberating the abstract brilliance and lyricism inherent in Bach’s great edifice…The Stuttgart Chamber Choir are full of vim and alertness and the trumpet playing is cataclysmically brilliant throughout…it is the effect of the combined ingredients which makes this the most striking and satisfying Mass in B minor to have appeared in years ” Jonathan Feeman-Attwood, Gramophone “Editor’s Choice”