B Minor Mass

[Bryn]

Anybody know how to do this on a mac please?

I am not a fan of Apple products but this might help:

[Dave2002]

Anybody know how to do this on a mac please?

You might be able to do it in real time (slow) using audacity. One way I recall is to install the Soundflower package so that the input is 2 channel stereo. However, I ducked out of attempts to test this again, as in order to make it work you probably have to deselect the Privacy option, and allow any application. Further - I suspect some of the bundles which have the Soundflower package may sneak other things on to your machine which you very probably don't want. I've used Soundflower in the past - I think that's OK - but you don't want it bundled with malware.

[ardcarp]

I'm wondering who the other ripienists were.

They were named by the presenter just before the Messe began.

[ardcarp]

Oh dear, there was no pun intended by my previous post! Very far from a 'mess', it was a most tightly controlled and enjoyable performance. It is indeed a huge undertaking for soloists to do all the chorus-work as well. In days of yore I was a ripienist in a St John at St John's SS, but with two bumpers-up per part. Catherine Bott, Richard Wistrech and Charles Daniels were the solisti ...can't remember the alto... but how (especially) Charles Daniels the evangelist coped on top of an afternoon rehearsal I cannot imagine. I did find myself (in yesterday's B minor, that is) wishing for a bigger choral effect. Despite all the scholarship to which Chris alluded, the B minor was not just one of the regular things done at the Thomaskirche with four blokes and a dog, but was more an apotheosis of Bach's techniques. As such, it seems to be conceived on a grand scale, and IMVVVHO, benefits from larger forces.