Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven
Performer: Elisabeth Söderström, Marga Hoffgen, Waldemar Kmentt, Martti Talvela, New Philharmonia Chorus
Orchestra: New Philharmonia Orchestra
Conductor: Otto Klemperer
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Warner
Catalogue: 2435675462
Release: 2001
Size: 3.15 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
Missa Solemnis in D major, Op. 123
01. Kyrie
02. Gloria in excelsis Deo
03. Qui tollis
04. Quoniam tu solus sanctus
05. Credo in unum Deum
06. Et incarnatus est
07. Et resurrexit
08. Sanctus
09. Benedictus
10. Agnus Dei
11. Dona nobis pacem
Few musical works express man’s metaphysical aspirations more powerfully than Beethoven’s titanic Missa Solemnis. As Otto Klemperer wrote some years before making this recording: “It is enormously difficult to translate into reality a work which doesn’t take reality into account.” He had first conducted the Missa Solemnis in 1927 and it came to define the epic grandeur of his interpretative style.