JC Bach: Missa da Requiem; Miserere – review

Ruiten/Sandhoff/Balzer/Bauer/RIAS Kammerchor/Academie für Alte Musik Berlin/Rademann (Harmonia Mundi)Following on the heels of the release of John Eliot Gardiner's disc of music by Johann Sebastian's older cousin, Johann Christoph Bach, come these choral works by Johann Christian Bach (1735‑1782). The youngest son of JS Bach, he was friends with Mozart, and spent much of the last two decades of his life in London. Both the Requiem and setting of Psalm 50, Miserere Mei Deus, are early work...

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