1740s

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Classical · Baroque music

Goldberg Variations

Johann Sebastian Bach and Glenn Gould

1741

The pianist Glenn Gould plays it fast and dry and hums audibly throughout, which the engineers could never get him to stop doing.

★ 9.6

Catholic mass · Baroque music

Mass in B minor

Johann Sebastian Bach and John Eliot Gardiner

1749

Bach assembled it late in life partly from music he had written decades earlier, and never heard the whole thing performed in his lifetime.

★ 9.4

Oratorio · Baroque music

Messiah

George Frideric Handel and Christopher Hogwood

1741

Handel wrote it for a Dublin charity concert, and the hall asked women to come without hoops in their skirts so more people could fit.

★ 9.1