Bach’s Mass in B Minor is among the most ambitious choral works in the repertoire — a summation of a lifetime’s compositional thought, assembling music spanning three decades into a single, vast architectural whole. It was never performed complete in Bach’s lifetime. That it now receives performances at all is itself an act of reconstruction and faith.

Solomon’s Knot performs it entirely from memory — a commitment that demands a different order of preparation, and that returns something essential to the music. Polyphonic transparency, ensemble balance, and the precise articulation of Bach’s contrapuntal and rhetorical lines emerge not from a conductor’s direction but from the singers’ deep internalisation of text and music together.

A work of extraordinary scope, sung by heart.

With Martin Randall Travel

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