About this minute
- Title
- Gloria in Excelsis (B Minor Mass)
- Conductor
- Nikolaus Harnoncourt
- Creator
- Johann Sebastian Bach
- Collections
- Christmas
Christmas #4
You heard a recording of a choir and orchestra performing music by J.S. Bach. The piece is called a ‘Gloria in Excelsis’, and is a short part of Bach’s ‘Mass in B Minor’, which lasts close to two hours! Originally the whole Mass would have been performed in a church, what kind of place did…