Johann Sebastian Bach |Mass in B Minor BWV 232

With Bach’s Mass in B minor, Andreas Reize releases his debut album with the Thomanerchor Leipzig. In 2021, Reize was appointed the 18th Thomaskantor after Johann Sebastian Bach. From small settings of 16 to 30 singers to the choir’s tutti of 90 boys’ and men’s voices, Reize registers a fascinating balance between chamber-musical plasticity and majestic grandeur. Reize’s interpretations with the Gewandhausorchester are already highly praised: with them he shapes a modern Leipzig Bach style, historically informed – with little vibrato and much articulation in the bowing.