Beethoven - Missa solemnis | Harmonia Mundi HMM902427

Beethoven - Missa solemnis

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Label: Harmonia Mundi

Cat No: HMM902427

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 29th January 2021

Contents

Artists

Polina Pasztircsak (soprano)
Sophie Harmsen (mezzo-soprano)
Steve Davislim (tenor)
Johannes Weisser (baritone)
RIAS Kammerchor
Freiburger Barockorchester

Conductor

Rene Jacobs

Works

Beethoven, Ludwig van

Missa solemnis in D major, op.123

Artists

Polina Pasztircsak (soprano)
Sophie Harmsen (mezzo-soprano)
Steve Davislim (tenor)
Johannes Weisser (baritone)
RIAS Kammerchor
Freiburger Barockorchester

Conductor

Rene Jacobs

About

Written between 1818 and 1823, Beethoven's Missa solemnis was the result of intensive theological and musical research in the library of its 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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