BEETHOVEN, L. van: Missa solemnis (Bernius)
Soloist:
Harmsen, Sophie
Soloist:
Kataja, Arttu
Soloist:
Kohlhepp, Sebastian
Soloist:
Winkel, Johanna
Choir:
Stuttgart Chamber Choir
Orchestra:
Hofkapelle Stuttgart
Conductor:
Bernius, Frieder
Composer:
Beethoven, Ludwig van
Missa Solemnis in D Major, Op. 123
Venue: Alpirsbach Abbey, Baden-Wurttemberg
Date of Concert: 09-2020
Playing Time: 01:11:07
Catalogue Number: 2.110669
UPC: 747313566952
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.
