Beethoven: Missa solemnis

Beethoven’s masterpiece—a very personal statement of the composer’s faith, rarely heard in concert halls—receives an incandescent reading from Sir John Eliot Gardiner, The Monteverdi Choir and the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique. The wonderful soloists are Lucy Crowe, Jennifer Johnston, James Gilchrist and Matthew Rose.

SDG718 69 minutes 58 seconds

'The newer version demands to be heard. Such is the visceral intensity of the music-making, a certain girding of the loins may be required before a second hearing, but isn’t that precisely how it shou ...
'It is a powerful and superbly executed account of Beethoven’s choral masterpiece. Each time I’ve listened to this new recording I’ve been stirred by it and I think it’s a tremendous achievement' (Mus ...