“The Different. 3” Choral Music Festival
Conductor: Jan Latham-Koenig
Stage Director: Aleksey Veiro
Choirmaster: Yulia Senyukova
Soloists, Choir and Orchestra of the Novaya Opera
Jan Latham-Koenig, conductor:
Bach never heard a complete performance of his Mass in B minor. Among the reasons are incredible technical difficulties, which could not be overcome by ordinary church singers and choir, and the immensity of the composition. The first public performance of the Mass in B minor, conducted by Carl Riedel, took place in Leipzig in 1859.
“Three years ago we decided to start Baroque tradition in this theatre. This is very unusual for an opera theatre to do this. Therefore it was very important for us to start with one of the most important Baroque pieces which was the Bach St. Matthew Passion. We did this. And after a huge amount of work it was extremely successful. In fact we had to repeat it at the Epiphany Festival about 6 months after we first did it. Then we decided to continue this but with another great Baroque work which was Handel’s Messiah, which we did last summer. And now I think we have firmly established a tradition of a choral festival in May or June, so we have chosen another Baroque masterpiece which is the Bach Mass in B minor.
I sung in the chorus my first performance of B minor Mass when I was a school boy aged 13. And this was regarded such a normal part of the repertoire, this Baroque music. I know the whole piece without even thinking about it, because we did it so often – St. Matthew Passion, the Messiah, the B minor Mass. Admittedly, then in a slightly different way. And I am changing this.
I am reminded of the great German conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler, who said: “It is incorrect to say that Bach has any less soul or emotion than Puccini simply that the soul and the emotion is less exposed”. And this remains for me absolutely the correct way to look at Bach.”
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