Conductor, director and artistic supervisior Herbert von Karajan leads the Berlin Philharmonic and the Vienna Singing Society in the Missa Solemnis by Ludwig van Beethoven. This performance from a live production at the Easter Festival in Salzburg in 1979 features a superb quartet of soloists including Anna Tomowa-Sintow, Ruza Baldani, Eric Tappy, and José van Dam. The Missa Solemnis op. 79, one of the most important masses, is scored for an orchestra and organ, together with four solo singers and chorus and has a highly dramatic, symphonic style. The Missa Solemnis was first performed in St. Petersburg in April 1824, under the musical supervision and financial support of Prince Nikolai Galitzin. The complexity of the fugues, the frequent counterpoint between the quartet of soloists, the choir and the different sections of the orchestra, and the sheer length of the piece (over an hour and a half) make it a huge challenge to perform. "Karajan's view of the Missa Solemnis shows a remarkable consistency."--New Hi-Fi Sound "...powerful, moving, uplifting and one of the great masterpieces of Beethoven..."--New Hi-Fi Sound
EMI Classics relaunches the popular EMI Masters Series: The definitive series of great classical music from a trove of the most notable and revered classical recordings ever made. Available on CD and for digital download, this newly repackaged installment of 30 masters celebrates EMI Classics' greatest artists,including Itzhak Perlman, Daniel Barenboim and Riccardo Muti. All performances in this series were recorded, mastered, or re-mastered at the internationally renowned Abbey Road Studios in London.
Beethoven: Piano Trios Music Artist : L.V. Beethoven Music Label : Geniun Musik Production/Naxo Release Date : 2012-02-28 Artistopia's Price :$18.93
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Beethoven constantly calls into question and modifies the notion of time in sonata form. The 32 sonatas are like a voyage of initiation that runs throughout his creative career, displaying his endlessly inventive imagination. After Liszt s Harmonies poétiques et religieuses and Sonata in B minor, François-Frédéric Guy offers us a complete cycle of Beethoven s sonatas, recorded in public at the Arsenal in Metz. This set is the first volume.
