It's a pity that such an interesting programme was ruined
by the inauspicious acoustics - excessive reverberation
muffles clarity of the polyphonic texture... Thanks anyway!

Dear Silvio, I don't think, this is a bad record by the sound engineers of BR-Klassik. On the contrary, it is a good record with 4 (+2) microphones around near the musicians, that guaranties, there aren't huge bad echoes.

I got a good impression from this mass a8 and the whole concert. I didn't heard this concert with headphones or burnt it on CD. But in this case I can't agree with you.

Lieber Frank, I was talking about the acoustics
of Schottenkirche St. Jakob, not the quality of recording. To my taste, there is not enough crispiness and transparency - but this is only my humble opinion, not a "final judgment"...

Dear Silvio, I have no problems with your different opinion. May be, another - a smaller church in Regensburg - would be a better location to perform this mass. But if you hear the madrigal "Langue al vostro languir" (track 5) the voices are clean and lucid, also in track 6 "Sanctus-Benedictus". I guess, it is fare more the mass itself with some non-transparency. The incomprehensibility of the voices in the polyphonic texture was strongly criticized by the Vatican, who even wanted to forbid them.

Yeah, the Church would never accept Beethoven's maxim that “Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents” and “music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend”...

Спасибо!