Marc Soustrot: Missa Solemnis 123 - COMPACT DISCS

Marc Soustrot: Missa Solemnis 123 - COMPACT DISCS

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Title:

Missa Solemnis 123

Artist:

Marc Soustrot

Label:

MDG

Product Type:

COMPACT DISCS

UPC:

760623112824

Genre:

Classical

Release Date:

2018-11-16

Number of Discs:

2

Additional Details:

2 PACK

On this album the Beethoven Hall Orchestra turns to one of the most important compositions of the oratorio literature: Beethoven's Missa solemnis. This recording conducted by Marc Soustrot with his customary fine touch features top-ranking international vocalists: the Czech Philharmonic Chorus of Brno, and renowned soloists. The Bonn composition genius himself had entitled his Missa solemnis A Little Choral Piece." Was it really Christian humility that led him to write in his diary: "A little choral piece- written by me in the honor of the Almighty- the Eternal Infinite?" Beethoven wrote the mass during what was for him a crazy period. Works regarded by him as insignificant met with storms of enthusiasm in Vienna, while he had to witness how his considerably more important Symphony No. 7 verged on failure. Beethoven withdrew from the compositional scene for quite some time, then to return in his late oeuvre with works transcending all that was usual: Symphony No. 9, Hammerklavier, and Missa solemnis. "The choir is the real star of the recording: the singers effortlessly master the extremely high passages always supported by the precise playing orchestra." (Crescendo) "Finely performed... a deep, spacious recording of wide dynamic range with all forces nicely balanced." (Gramophone)"

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