Bernius Hofkapelle Stuttgart Kammerchor Stuttgart - Missa Solemnis - DVD

Tamara Wilson, Elizabeth Deshong, Nikolai Schukoff, and Brindley Sherratt perform with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and the Gulbenkian Choir conducted by John Nelson with first violinist Marieke Blankestijn.

Beethoven's Missa solemnis is the one work the composer admired above all his compositions. It was written for his great patron and friend Archduke Rudolf of Austria at around the same time that he embarked on his Ninth Symphony and as the writer Donald Tovey noted, 'there is no choral and no orchestral writing, earlier or later, that shows a more thrilling sense of the individual colour of every chord.' This insightful documentary follows Frieder Bernius on a journey of discovery as he immerses himself in Beethoven's monumental masterpiece in preparation for a recording.

The celebrated British conductor Andrew Manze conducts the Bachchor Salzburg and the Camerata Salzburg in this new realization of Mozart's Mass in C minor. The performance uses a new score reconstructed and edited by the renowned musicologist and Mozart expert Ulrich Leisinger. Comparing several editions of the Mass from Mozart's time found in and around Salzburg, Leisinger discovered many parallels between each score and other clues to help complete any missing parts. Featuring a stellar quartet of soloists including Carolyn Sampson, this live performance from the Großer Saal of the Mozarteum Foundation in Salzburg also includes Leopold Mozart's rarity Litaniae Lauretanae.