BEETHOVEN – Révolution – Missa Solemnis

« After studying, recording and releasing the complete symphonies of the Bonn composer – concluding with the imposing 9th Symphony – we come to the end of our “Beethoven Revolution” project. Our cycle culminates in his Missa Solemnis, one of the most inestimable treasures of the human mind, composed between 1819 and 1823, in which, as Romain Rolland so aptly writes in his essential book on Beethoven “a sovereign master of the art of sound has, with absolute sincerity, drawn on the depths of his great soul. It is, one might say, the Testament of his entire life, written at his peak, in full vigour, and enriched by poignant experience.

What has always fascinated me about Beethoven, apart from the power of his language, is that his music speaks to every human being, regardless of origin, class or creed, and is not composed merely to satisfy the aristocratic or clerical elite …»
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ALIA VOX
AVSA9956
Total : 76’19

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
Révolution
MISSA SOLEMNIS
Op. 123 (1819-23)

Pour quatre voix solistes, chœur, orchestre et orgue en ré majeur
For four solo voices, chorus, orchestra and organ in D major
Para cuatro voces, coro, orquesta y órgano en re mayor

I.  / 1-3. Kyrie 11’30
II. / 4-10. Gloria   6’17
III. / 11-17. Credo   6’53
IV. / 18-22. Sanctus – Benedictus 15’39
V. / 23-27. Agnus 11’36

Lina Johnson, Olivia Vermeulen, Martin Platz, Manuel Walser
LA CAPELLA NACIONAL DE CATALUNYA

LE CONCERT DES NATIONS
Lina Tur Bonet premier violon et violon solo

Direction : Jordi Savall

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« After studying, recording and releasing the complete symphonies of the Bonn composer – concluding with the imposing 9th Symphony – we come to the end of our “Beethoven Revolution” project. Our cycle culminates in his Missa Solemnis, one of the most inestimable treasures of the human mind, composed between 1819 and 1823, in which, as Romain Rolland so aptly writes in his essential book on Beethoven “a sovereign master of the art of sound has, with absolute sincerity, drawn on the depths of his great soul. It is, one might say, the Testament of his entire life, written at his peak, in full vigour, and enriched by poignant experience.

What has always fascinated me about Beethoven, apart from the power of his language, is that his music speaks to every human being, regardless of origin, class or creed, and is not composed merely to satisfy the aristocratic or clerical elite …»

+ information in the CD booklet