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Beethoven: Missa Solemnis

~ Otto Klemperer

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Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven
Audio CD (5 Feb 2001)
SPARS Code: A-D
Number of Discs: 1
Label: EMI Classics
ASIN: B000058USU

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Mass in D, 'Missa Solemnis'
Composed by Ludwig van Beethoven
Performed by New Philharmonia Chorus, New Philharmonia Orchestra
with Elisabeth S�derstr�m, Marga H�ffgen, Waldemar Kmentt, Martti Talvela
Conducted by Otto Klemperer

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5.0 out of 5 stars An Emotional Rollercoaster, 9 Jul 2006

By	Lewis Graham "lewisgraham" (East Anglia) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

A live performance of this work may be a bit off but the excitement of the evening will carry it through anyway, so no harm done. A recording, to be played ovar and over again needs to be close to ideal otherwise it will quickly annoy. So when a piece requires a full orchestra, symphony chorus and four soloists - all working together - a recording has a lot to live up to.

Step forward Otto Klemperer. With the New Philarmonia Orchestra and Chorus, he takes Beethoven and wrings every drop of excitement and emotion from an astonishing score. The stately Kyrie is followed by a Kyrie that climbs increasingly craggy emotional heights. Just as you stagger to the top, the performance is scaling the next impossible looking peak beyond.

The Credo, Sanctus and Agnus Dei follow, each a jewel in their own right. As the final Agnus, Dona Nobis Pacem completes we are, indeed, given immaculate peace.

Unless you have definite notions and want a strictly period performance, there is no other recording that matches this one.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Peerless, 13 Feb 2003

By	R. C. Ross (Birmingham) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Let’s not mince words. Towering, monumental, magisterial, noble - peerless. In this case there is little point in analytical dissection. This recording is a ‘gestalt’, the whole exceeding the greatness of it parts. And this is greatness. An extraordinary symbiosis between composer/conductor. A performance that gloriously achieves the desideratum of providing a genuine objective correlative to Beethoven’s superscript—‘From the heart — may it return to the heart!’ Making the only appropriate response that of the Gramophone reviewer—‘Heartfelt thanks!…’

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5.0 out of 5 stars Buy it!! Buy it!! Buy it!!!!, 25 Jan 2007

By	David C. Coleman (Birmigham, UK) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I have to admit I was not that acquainted with Beethoven's "Missa Solemnis". But I was acquainted with Klemperers Beethoven, so I was looking forward to seeing how the maestro would attempt this monumental choral piece! Well! I was not disappointed!!..
Klemperer and his performers gave an electrifying account of, what Beethoven described as his greatest work. And it's easy to see why. We are subjected to eighty minutes of some of the most exquisite music making ever written: Moments of high power and drama lying besides moments of extreme delicacy. And it never goes dull!

Klemperer, to me, has hit the pulse of this work. Orchestral playing, Chorus singing and soloists are all first rate and well balanced.
Recording also sounds fresh and spontaneous, despite it dating from the sixties. The only small problem is that the sound deteriorates somewhat in the last five minutes and the upper choral registers sound a bit muffled (At least on my copy).

But don't let that distract you from getting it. I highly reccommend it. Any music lover should have it in their collection. And it's not too expensive either!..

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As Mahler and Schoenberg did before him, Klemperer, born a jew, switched in his youth to chistianity, becoming a catholic. Read more

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