Before Bach wrote his end-of-life B Minor Mass, he summoned his youthful vigor to compose four exquisite masses in Latin. While Bach’s cantatas were often performed only once and were the result of quick compositional work, his Masses represent his finest music that he would have returned to frequently. They exhibit all of the mastery of the late B Minor Mass in the form of smaller and digestible delights, written by a composer at a highpoint of his career. The Thirteen performs two of his most exciting early masses, paired with some of his finest instrumental writing.

 A choir of twelve soloists joins violinist and concertmaster Adriane Post and an orchestra of period instrumentalists, featuring The Thirteen’s “outstanding” natural horn and “charming” oboes (Washington Classical Review).

—thethirteenchoir.org