What's your favorite OVPP recording of Bach's Mass in b minor BWV232?

[Baron Scarpia]

What's your favorite one-voice-per-part recording and why?

(But, of course, if you can't stop yourself from raving about Furtwangler, I'm not going to try and stop you.)

I have Harnoncourt '68 (which I love, but the sound is dated) Herreweghe on HM (something about the audio doesn't sound quite right to me) Gardiner on Archiv (splendid), Boston Baroque on Telarc (splendid) Karajan BPO (in a big box edition) and presumably Rilling in the Hannsler Bach edition.

I'd like to have a OVPP recording as an alternative. (I had Butt at one point, but found it unpleasantly "dry.")

[kishnevi]

Minkowski .

(I think it's OVPP. And even if it isn't it's well worth hearing.)

[San Antone]

Andrew Parrott, The Taverner Consort

[JCBuckley]

I too have the Minkowski set, which I like very much, even if it is a bit raw in places. Gardiner's recording is the one I listen to most frequently, though.

[DaveF]

Strictly, strictly, Parrott is not OVPP as he adds an extra voice per line in some of the choruses.  But I find his performance irresistible.  The passage where the divine Emma kicks off the Et in terra pax fugue is probably my favourite 30 seconds of recorded music, ever.

[Biffo]

I don't have a OVPP recommendation and probably wouldn't want one. Savall (AliaVox) is flexible - he uses La Capella Real de Catalunya (18v) for the large scale choruses and a 'coro favorito' (4v) or the coro favoriti plus the 5 soloists for others. I can't remember if all 27 voices are used together - the booklet just says 'tutti' for some movements. The set also contains a DVD of the performance but I haven't watched it for a while.

[Mandryka]

For OVPP I plump for Junghänel/Cantus Colln.

I'm not a connoisseur of singing. I like the instrumental music to be characterful; I like the rhythms to be fluid.

The reason I pick Junghänel is that it's abstract. It's not a flesh and blood and guts and sweat and tears performance, it's a spiritual performance. I prefer that way of music making,  and anyway I think it's especially appropriate for a mass (not that I really know anything about masses!)

[Baron Scarpia]

Thanks for your replies and especially for specific comments. They're in my shopping cart and it still isn't clear which one will percolate to the top and get purchased. It would be nice to have time to get familiar with them all. (That's not happening any time soon.)

It's not clear that OVPP is going to become my go-to recording, but in Gardiner's Archiv set the big Kyrie starts OVPP, and then one by one the single voices are joined by a chorus, which is a striking effect. But it was pretty good when it was OVPP.

[Baron Scarpia]

Took the GMG solution, ordered them all.