Otto Klemperer - Beethoven, L.V. : Missa Solemnis - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Album Tracks 1. Symphony No. 7 in a Major, Op. 92 2. Symphony No. 8 in F Major, Op. 93 3. Egmont, Op. 84 Overture

Album Tracks 1. Mass for Soloists, Chorus & Orchestra in D Major ('Missa Solemnis'), Op. 123 2. Mass for Soloists, Chorus & Orchestra in D Major ('Missa Solemnis'), Op. 123 3. Mass for Soloists, Chorus & Orchestra in D Major ('Missa Solemnis'), Op. 123 4. Mass for Soloists, Chorus & Orchestra in D Major ('Missa Solemnis'), Op. 123 5. Mass for Soloists, Chorus & Orchestra in D Major ('Missa Solemnis'), Op. 123 6. Mass for Soloists, Chorus & Orchestra in D Major ('Missa Solemnis'), Op. 123 7. Mass for Soloists, Chorus & Orchestra in D Major ('Missa Solemnis'), Op. 123 8. Mass for Soloists, Chorus & Orchestra in D Major ('Missa Solemnis'), Op. 123 9. Mass for Soloists, Chorus & Orchestra in D Major ('Missa Solemnis'), Op. 123 10. Mass for Soloists, Chorus & Orchestra in D Major ('Missa Solemnis'), Op. 123 11. Mass for Soloists, Chorus & Orchestra in D Major ('Missa Solemnis'), Op. 123

Jeremie Rhorer and Le Cercle de l'Harmonie launch a new collaboration with Alpha Classics, with several projects planned, following the Mozart operas released on the tag in 2016 and 2017. Here they tackle a monument of the sacred repertoire that is fascinating for it's rich, complex, even 'mysterious' conception. Rhorer tells us that his interpretation pays close attention to the question of tempi, which have often become progressively slower and heavier since the post-Romantic period the tempi have 'a direct bearing on the vocal comfort of the singers, since breath control is one of the great difficulties of this work', he says. For this recording, he has called in a quartet of top-flight soloists along with the Audi Jugendchorakademie, a remarkable German youth choir founded in 2007. In conjunction with his period-instrument orchestra, soon to celebrate it's twentieth anniversary, they offer a passionate vision of Beethoven's masterpiece.