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Klemperer, Otto
Beethoven: Missa Solemnis
CD
20 Apr 2015
Barcode: 0724356754621
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven
Other participants: Elisabeth Söderstöm, Marga Höffgen, Waldemar Kmentt, Martti Talvela, New Philharmonia Chorus & Orchestra
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.
Audio sample & Tracklisting
Disc 1 | |
01 | Kyrie: Missa solemnis, Op.123 (2001 - Remaster) - Otto Klemperer/Elisabeth Söderström/Waldemar Kment |
02 | Gloria in excelsis Deo: Missa solemnis, Op.123 (2001 - Remaster), Gloria - Otto Klemperer/Elisabeth Söderström/Waldemar Kment |
03 | Qui tollis: Missa solemnis, Op.123 (2001 - Remaster), Gloria - Otto Klemperer/Elisabeth Söderström/Waldemar Kment |
04 | Quoniam tu solus sanctus: Missa solemnis, Op.123 (2001 - Remaster), Gloria - Otto Klemperer/Elisabeth Söderström/Waldemar Kment |
05 | Credo in unum Deum: Missa solemnis, Op.123 (2001 - Remaster), Credo - Otto Klemperer/Elisabeth Söderström/Waldemar Kment |
06 | Et incarnatus est: Missa solemnis, Op.123 (2001 - Remaster), Credo - Otto Klemperer/Elisabeth Söderström/Waldemar Kment |
07 | Et resurrexit: Missa solemnis, Op.123 (2001 - Remaster), Credo - Otto Klemperer/Elisabeth Söderström/Waldemar Kment |
08 | Sanctus: Missa solemnis, Op.123 (2001 - Remaster), Sanctus - Otto Klemperer/Elisabeth Söderström/Waldemar Kment |
09 | Benedictus: Missa solemnis, Op.123 (2001 - Remaster), Sanctus - Otto Klemperer/Elisabeth Söderström/Waldemar Kment |
10 | Agnus Dei: Missa solemnis, Op.123 (2001 - Remaster), Agnus Dei - Otto Klemperer/Elisabeth Söderström/Waldemar Kment |
11 | Dona nobis pacem: Missa solemnis, Op.123 (2001 - Remaster), Agnus Dei - Otto Klemperer/Elisabeth Söderström/Waldemar Kment |