Bach’s Mass in B Minor (BWV 232) is his only complete Latin mass. Created during the final years of his life, it combines newly composed movements with revised earlier ones to form a musical synthesis of his work a true pinnacle of Baroque music.

Karl Richter’s 1961 recording with the Munich Bach Choir and the Munich Bach Orchestra remains a legendary benchmark to this day. It is distinguished by its cohesive sound, clear interpretation, and outstanding soloists.

To achieve the best possible sound quality, the recordings have been remastered and cut—for the first time using a purely analog process directly from the original two-track tapes.

The audiophile vinyl series "The Original Source" presents outstanding recordings with a completely new level of sound quality. For this series, the renowned Emil Berliner Studios remastered and cut the original multi-track tapes in 100 % analog quality (AAA), utilizing technologies developed specifically for this project.

The sonic differences compared to the original releases are significant: greater clarity, enhanced detail, and improved frequency response combined with reduced background noise, distortion, and compression deliver an audiophile listening experience like never before.

This limited, numbered edition is pressed on 180 gram vinyl and presented in a luxurious (3 LP) box set; it includes additional photographs as well as facsimiles of the original recording logs and tape boxes.