Rave Reviews for Bach's Mass in B Minor (October 25, 2014)

Daniel Abraham and the musicians of the Bach Sinfonia performed Johann Sebastian Bach's timeless masterwork, the Mass in B Minor, BWV 232 on Saturday, October 25.

Highlights from The Washington Post review by Cecelia Porter: 
"a marvelous, technically sure account of J.S. Bach’s monumental Mass in B Minor, BWV. 232."
[For which] "Abraham veered away from what we have come to expect today."
"With sensitively tuned gestures, Abraham summoned his musicians to voice the music’s dramatic span of human emotions raised to ethereal heights by a composer who sought to reach beyond human capabilities. And both singers and instrumentalists were up to this marvelous assignment . . . ."

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