Beethoven: Missa Solemnis, Op. 123

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Jacobs penetrates to the heart of the music with his customary insight and intelligence, though not without adding an enigma or two of his own…Jacobs is superb not only at communicating the music’s... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2021, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 29th Jan 2021
Catalogue No: HMM902427
Label: Harmonia Mundi
Length: 71 minutes

Presto Editor's Choice

January 2021
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13th February 2021

Record of the Week
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2022

Nominated - Choral

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Beethoven: Missa Solemnis in D major, Op. 123

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Polina Pastirchak (soloist), Sophie Harmsen (soloist), Steve Davislim (soloist), Johannes Weisser (soloist)
Freiburger Barockorchester, RIAS Kammerchor
René Jacobs

Kyrie "Kyrie eleison" - "Christie eleison" - "Kyrie eleison"

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Gloria "Gloria in excelsis Deo"

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Gloria "Gratias agimus tibi propter magnam gloriam tuam"

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Gloria "Qui tollis peccata mundi"

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Gloria "Qui sedes ad dexteram Patris"

Track length2:36

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Gloria "Quoniam tu solus Sanctus"

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Credo "Credo in umum Deum"

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Credo "Et incarnatus est de Spiritu Sancto"

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Credo "Et resurrexit tertia die"

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Credo "Et vitam venturi sæculi"

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Sanctus "Sanctus Dominus Deus Sabaoth" - "Hosanna in excelsis"

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Sanctus. Präludium

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Benedictus "Benedictus qui venit in nomine Domini" - "Hosanna in excelsis"

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Agnus Dei "Agnus Dei qui tollis peccata mundi"

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Agnus Dei "Dona nobis pacem"

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Written between 1818 and 1823, Beethoven's Missa solemnis was the result of intensive theological and musical research in the library of it's dedicatee, Archduke Rudolph of Austria. It is, in Beethoven's own view, his most ambitious composition. On this recording, René Jacobs shows us that it is also his loftiest. This is the work of a composer with deeply held religious sentiments and profound tenderness for humanity, so confident in his artistry that he could create that which goes beyond liturgical form and expresses in musical terms the universality of divine transcendence.

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April 2021

Jacobs penetrates to the heart of the music with his customary insight and intelligence, though not without adding an enigma or two of his own…Jacobs is superb not only at communicating the music’s visceral excitement, but also at plumbing its emotional depths – not least in his deeply moving account of the Miserere.

April 2021

One of the recording’s remarkable qualities – there are a few – is the telling detail of the textual response to a Mass-setting in which every word matters.

January 2021

Jacobs’s fresh, often febrile Missa has the same sense of the ink still being wet on the page that made François-Xavier Roth’s 2020 recording of the Fifth Symphony such a Presto favourite: there’s an exciting rawness (particularly in the lower regions) to the orchestral sound when required, though no rough edges whatsoever from the RIAS Kammerchor, who surmount Beethoven’s formidable technical challenges with exhilarating aplomb.

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