Bach: Sacred Vocal Works [Box Set] (2002)

About this title: This monster box set -- nine CDs -- is aimed at buyers in the process of doing what used to be called building a classical library. It contains four large Bach sacred works generally deemed critical to a classical collection aspiring to completeness: the St. John and St. Matthew Passions, the Christmas Oratorio, and the Mass in B minor. The performances, recorded on period instruments by John Eliot Gardiner and his English Baroque Soloists with the Monteverdi Choir in the late '80s, are reliable classics, the kind of thing that a clerk at a CD store might tell you that you couldn't go wrong ... read more

Tracks on this album

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is described below.