Beethoven: Missa Solemnis
Otto Klemperer, New Philharmonia Chorus, Elisabeth Söderström, Waldemar Kmentt, Marga Höffgen, Martt- Kyrie
- Gloria in exelsis Deo
- Qui tollis
- Quoniam tu solus sanctus
- Credo in unum Deum
- Et incarnatus est
- Et resurrexit
- Sanctus
- Benedictus
- Agnus Dei
- Dona nobis pacem
Few musical works express man’s metaphysical aspirations more powerfully than Beethoven’s titanic Missa Solemnis. As Otto Klemperer wrote some years before making this recording: “It is enormously difficult to translate into reality a work which doesn’t take reality into account.” He had first conducted the Missa Solemnis in 1927 and it came to define the epic grandeur of his interpretative style.