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Missa Solemnis by Beethoven / Hargan / Gielen (CD, 2020)

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Artist: Hargan Lipovsek Moser Holle Scholz Wiener Singverein Orf Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra Giel. A spontaneous decision to write this music without a direct commission. UPC: 4011790999128. Label: Orfeo.

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Record LabelOeo, Orfeo

UPC4011790999128

eBay Product ID (ePID)7046050701

Product Key Features

FormatCD

Release Year2020

GenreClassical Artists

ArtistBeethoven / Hargan / Gielen

Release TitleMissa Solemnis

Dimensions

Item Height0.39 in

Item Weight0.23 lb

Item Length5.61 in

Item Width4.94 in

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Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States

Number of Discs1

NotesThe Missa solemnis was Beethoven's reaction to his student Arch-Duke Rudolph, youngest brother to Emperor Franz I of Austria, being appointed Arch-Bishop of Olmütz in 1819. A spontaneous decision to write this music without a direct commission. He planned for the oevre to be completed on the occasion of Rudolph's enthronement on March 19, 1820, but the work proved to be much more difficult for the composer than he had anticipated, and accordingly the premiere did not take place for another four years - on April 7, 1824 in a charity concert of the Philharmonic Society St. Petersburg. It is not easy for the Missa solemnis today. This extraordinary work does not appear in the concert programmes as often as it still did some years ago. "The world of shareholder values doesn't care for Christ", as Michael Gielen says. He states that this is one of the reasons for the difficulties this work seems to cause audiences today. Michael Gielen, who passed away in March 2019, can be heard in this historical recording from 1985 with the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra.