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Beethoven’s Missa solemnis

Beethoven’s titanic Mass is performed by the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and Arnold Schoenberg Choir under conductor Nikolous Harnoncourt.

Presented by Tom Service

Finding the terror alongside the spiritual awe, the questioning doubt as well as the faith, Beethoven’s mighty Missa solemnis is a work of visceral power – a public statement of intensely private belief. ‘From the heart – may it return to the heart!,’ the composer wrote at the top of a score that stretched the proportions and ambitions of the orchestral Mass to new limits.

A work close to Harnoncourt’s heart, the Missa solemnis was also the work he conducted in his final public performance before retiring in December 2015. Experience the raw intensity of his account here with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and Arnold Schoenberg Choir at the 1998 ´óÏó´«Ã½ Proms.

Beethoven: Missa solemnis

Chamber Orchestra of Europe
Arnold Schoenberg Choir
Ruth Ziesak (soprano)
Bernarda Fink (alto)
Herbert Lippert (tenor)
Neal Davies (bass)
Nikolous Harnoncourt (conductor)

(From ´óÏó´«Ã½ Proms 1998, 11 September)

1 hour, 59 minutes

Last on

Sun 19 Jul 2020 21:00

Music Played

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Missa solemnis

    Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt. Singer: Neal Davies. Singer: Herbert Lippert. Singer: Bernarda Fink. Singer: Ruth Ziesak. Choir: Arnold Schoenberg Chor. Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe.

Broadcast

  • Sun 19 Jul 2020 21:00

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