Beethoven: Missa solemnis in D major, op. 123 | Christian Thielemann & Staatskapelle Dresden

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01:25 - Beethoven: Missa solemnis in D major, op. 123

Krassimira Stoyanova | Mezzo-soprano
Elina Garanča | Mezzo-soprano
Michael Schade | Tenor
Franz-Josef Selig | Bass

Staatskapelle Dresden
Conducted by Christian Thielemann
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Classic Archive, 2020

[paulclaudel]

1:25 Kyrie
11:33 Gloria
29:52 Credo
51:22 Sanctus
55:27 Benedictus
1:09:00 Agnus Dei

[jorgejuan]

Desde la gran versión de Otto Klemperer no habia escuchado una interpretación tan cósmica de la obra. Excelente grabación con sonido 5.1.

[ishikawaniv]

that Benedictus! lamenting! heart-piercing!

[jamesboswell]

Dona nobis pacem. Beethoven's most generous musical gift - and that's really saying something! Thank you that was a truly beautiful performance of a wonderful masterpiece.

[cs.e.]

True, deeply committed performance in service of Beethoven' music. Beautiful violin solo in Benedictus. No forced professional egos like in some other famous orchestras...

[mateustiago]

Música muito mística, Christian Thielemann excelente interpretação

[antoniocostanza]

Capolavoro sublime celestiale monumentale immortale opera sinfonica, compositore geniale titanico Ludwig Van Beethoven

[wedge]

34:39 Et incarnatus est de Spiritu Sancto
43:54 Et vitam venturi saeculi

[NobuKim-xo]

I am very impressed so much.
Thank you.

[johnjustice]

That Elena Garanca; And she can sing a bit too!

[acac]

o Kyrie, o Benedictus e o Agnus são obras primas, gravadas para toda a história da música, , das obras que mais me emocionam na vida!!!

[phillipvietri]

Theodore Adorno's famous article on the Missa Solemnis is a sad misunderstanding of the work. Adorno, an atheist, had no real understanding of the enormity of this mass. Beethoven, as Adorno's article shows, WAS a believer, and the conventional aspects of this work show a readiness to conform to the liturgical norms of his times. The work is too enormous and personal to be suitable for liturgical worship, yet it is in its own way still a liturgical work. It is Beethoven's own personal reflection on the words of the liturgy. So it is that the conventional elements of the music serve a genuine purpose. But it is nevertheless a highly original work, which dwarfs all other settings of the texts of the Ordinary of the Mass. The Missa deviates progressively from convention as it progresses. The Credo is a very personal setting of the text. The Sanctus takes into the realms of Scripture, while the Agnus Dei reveals it to be a Missa in tempore bello, with the war rolling progressively over the listener, the final drum strokes and forlorn pleas for peace proclaiming that there is no lasting peace, or rather, a peace "the world cannot give." This is an immeasurably titanic work, and though many have performed it, few have understood what it is they are performing. Thielemann does.

[maurizio]

Stoyanova mezzo??? She is a wonderfull SOPRANO

[georgesclermont]

No question that the music and its interpretation are first class.
However the opening statement is a bit rich! Dresden was sadly destroyed but so were many citys in the UK, starting with London, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Poland. etc.

[白百合の貴婦人-rr]

ベートーベンの音楽芸術の集大成である偉大な作品。
その為、合唱をはじめとする演奏も難曲です。