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Beethoven: Mass in C & Missa Solemnis
RecommendedElly Ameling (soprano), Janet Baker (mezzo), Theo Altmeyer (tenor), Marius Rintzler (bass), Heather Harper (soprano), Robert Tear (tenor), Hans Sotin (bass)
New Philharmonia Chorus, New Philharmonia Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Carlo Maria Giulini
Carlo Maria Giulini draws an almost spiritual glow from the London Philharmonic in a luminous performance of the Missa Solemnis. The Et incarnatus est section is heart-stoppingly spine-tingling,... —
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Building a Library, December 2012, First Choice
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Beethoven: Messe C-Dur & Leonore Overture
Genia Kühmeier (soprano), Gerhild Romberger (alto), Maximilian Schmitt (tenor), Luca Pisaroni (bass-baritone), Symphonie-Orchester und Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Mariss Jansons
Thrilling playing and solid singing from a reliable crack team – the superb recorded sound brings Beethoven’s liturgical work to almost operatic life. —
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Presto Editor's Choice, December 2018
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Beethoven - Mass in C major
Janice Watson (soprano), Jean Rigby (mezzo soprano), John Mark Ainsley (tenor) & Gwynne Howell (bass)
Corydon Singers & Corydon Orchestra, Matthew Best
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Bernius favours a severe, even austere approach, as if the work is actually being performed during a service, but that does bring out the intensity of the many surprising contrasts. —
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Beethoven: Mass in C & Symphony No. 9 ‘Ode to Joy’(4th Movement)
Sally Matthews (soprano), Sara Mingardo (mezzo-soprano), John Mark Ainsley (tenor) & Alastair Miles (bass), Twyla Robinson (soprano), Karen Cargill (mezzo-soprano), John MacMaster (tenor), Gerald Finley (bass)
London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Colin Davis, Bernard Haitink
The slow third movement… moves along at a pace few conductors would have employed fifty years ago. Yet it never sounds hurried, and the dramatic brass interruptions towards its close have an... —
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Sir Thomas Beecham: Complete Stereo Recordings On Warner Classics
Sir Thomas Beecham, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre National de France, Victoria de los Angeles (soprano), Jussi Bjoerling (tenor), Nicolai Gedda (tenor), Beecham Choral Society
The early stereo recordings still sound good and that some of them are seventy years old is hard to believe. Warner's box design is a tad gloomy though, Beecham resembling Brando’s Don Corleone... —
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Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 & Mass in C Major
Emanuel Ax (piano), Joélle Harvey (soprano), Kelley O'Connor (mezzo-soprano), William Burden (tenor), Shenyang (bass-baritone)
San Francisco Symphony, San Francisco Symphony Chorus, Michael Tilson Thomas
[Emanuel Ax] is on masterful form for the Third Concerto…his fulsome tone matches the rich, robust orchestral sound, and the tempos invariably feel right…there's pure poetry in the Largo, and... —
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Günter Wand Edition Volume 14
Sacred Music from the Viennese Classical School
Margaret Marshall (soprano), Cornelia Wulkopf (alto), Adolf Dallapozza (tenor) & Karl Ridderbusch (bass), Brigitte Dürrler (soprano), Julia Hamari (alto), Werner Krenn (tenor) & Kunikazu Ohashu (bass)
Chor und Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, WDR Rundfunkchor Köln, WDR...
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Beethoven: Missa Solemnis in D major, Op. 123, etc.
Heather Harper, Robert Tear, Hans Sotin, Dame Janet Baker, Elly Ameling, Marius Rintzler
London Philharmonic Orchestra, New Philharmonia Orchestra, Carlo Maria Giulini
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Beethoven: Choral Music
Collegium Academicum de Genève, Monte Carlo Opera Orchestra, Robert Dunand, David Josefowitz
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