Beethoven: Missa Solemnis: Documentary and Performance

Release Date: 11th Sep 2020
Catalogue No: 2110669
Label: Naxos

Beethoven: Missa Solemnis in D major, Op. 123

Johanna Winkel (soprano), Sophie Harmsen (mezzo-soprano), Sebastian Kohlhepp (tenor), Arttu Kataja (bass)
Hofkapelle Stuttgart, Stuttgart Chamber Choir
Frieder Bernius

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Beethoven’s Missa solemnis is the one work the composer admired above all his compositions. It was written for his great patron and friend Archduke Rudolf of Austria at around the same time that he embarked on his Ninth Symphony and as the writer Donald Tovey noted, ‘there is no choral and no orchestral writing, earlier or later, that shows a more thrilling sense of the individual colour of every chord.’ This insightful documentary follows Frieder Bernius on a journey of discovery as he immerses himself in Beethoven’s monumental masterpiece in preparation for a recording.

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