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	The Hong Kong Bach Choir - Missa Solemnis
		The Missa solemnis was planned originally as a tribute to his friend and patron Archduke Rudolf of Austria, a son of the Emperor, on the occasion of Rudolf's elevation to the rank of Cardinal-Archbishop of Olmütz in Moravia.
		Beethoven's use of a traditional text as the foundation for an exploration of new directions is akin to Renaissance painters' use of common Biblical themes as the basis for arrangements of colors, shapes, textures and proportions.
		The true heart of Beethoven's Missa solemnis is the Sanctus, a mostly slow movement whose subtle contrast between tempos - Adagio (Sanctus) and Andante (Benedictus) - is reminiscent of the alternating tempos in the equivalent movement of the Ninth Symphony.
	www.bachchoir.org.hk /concerts/1998/MissaSolemnis.html (1358 words)

	classical music - andante - bruno walter
		So just as Beethoven the man was desolate because of his vast humanity as well as his physical suffering, so he had to become an artist who was compelled to converse, from the greatest depths of his soul, in a new language, which became immense in its presentation, and hence it often seemed puzzling.
		Beethoven himself was convinced to the very end that he had written an ecclesiastical Mass; he admitted only that it could also be performed as an oratorio â” that is, in the concert hall.
		Rather, I believe that Beethoven understood the military trumpets and drums as a symbol of everything that is inimical and that, with coarse hands, interferes with the peace that we all desire in life.
	www.andante.com /profiles/walter/missa.cfm (5283 words)

	Ludwig van Beethoven - Missa Solemnis - Mass in C - A Good-Music-Guide Review
		Beethoven's patron was Archduke Rudolph, the brother of the reigning Emperor of Austria.
		Beethoven immersed himself in the composition, studying church music history for a year, and putting his heart and soul into the new work.
		The Missa Solemnis is based very faithfully on the traditional Catholic Mass (see the full text here), the five main sections Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus and Agnus Dei subdivided into smaller sections.
	www.good-music-guide.com /reviews/051_beethoven_missa_solemnis.htm (821 words)

	ipedia.com: Missa Solemnis (Beethoven) Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Ludwig van Beethoven 's Missa Solemnis in D Major, Op 123 was composed in 1817-1823.
		Beethoven's second setting of the mass, is one of the composer's supreme achievements, and, with Bach's Mass in b m...
		Ludwig van Beethoven's Missa Solemnis in D Major, Op 123 was composed in 1817-1823.
	www.ipedia.com /missa_solemnis__beethoven_.html (782 words)

	Victoria Bach Festival - Reviews
		Beethoven's Missa Solemnis was a fitting and stirring send-off for Craig Hella Johnson, the outgoing artistic director of the Houston Masterworks Chorus.
		For Missa Solemnis, Johnson enlarged the Masterworks Chorus with singers from Conspirare in Austin and the Victoria Bach Festival Chorus.
		(Missa Solemnis was scheduled to be repeated in Victoria on Monday.) The Houston Masterworks Chorus Orchestra, a freelance ensemble, accompanied.
	www.victoriabachfestival.org /chronicle.htm (403 words)

	San Francisco Bach Choir: Beethoven Missa Solemnis and Piano Concerto No. 2
		Beethoven spoke of how satisfying it would be to work as Kapellmeister of a small court or chapel.
		Beethoven began sketching the B flat concerto in 1791 or ’92 and finished it just in time for its premiere on March 29, 1795, at which he probably improvised the cadenza.
		Another crucial component of Beethoven’s spirituality was German Romanbcism as embodied in the poetry of Goethe and Schiller, the writings of Herder, with their nohons of a myshcal relation between people and Nature, and most importantly in Hegel’s philosophy of spirit.
	www.sfbach.org /concerts/19960629notes.html (1519 words)

	BEETHOVEN Missa Solemnis. Various/SWR RSO/Norrington (HANSSLER) - INKPOT
		As the new director of the SWR Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart, he now adds Beethoven's weighty Missa Solemnis to the orchestra's repertoire; this album is taken from recent recordings in the Stuttgart Beethovensaal in July 1999 at the Schwetzinger Festival.
		Beethoven himself had considered the mass to be his greatest work, writing in a letter to Cherubini that "I have just completed a solemn mass and called it my biggest and most perfect achievement." Historically, however, it took the composer much longer than he had planned.
		In fact, he had intended to complete it for the coronation of his pupil, Archduke Randolph, as the Archbishop of Olmütz, on March 9th, 1820, but the music was not completed until the summer of 1822, well past the red-letter date.
	inkpot.com /classical/beethsolem_nor.html (866 words)

	Order: Choral Singing Help for Beethoven Missa Solimnis
		Beethoven himself, in his last years, referred to it as his finest work, and though it has notably failed to reach the popularity of many of the symphonies and sonatas, it represents Beethoven at the height of his powers.
		The musical form of the Missa Solemnis is more akin to a symphony with choral accompaniment than a "traditional" choral Mass.
		The writing displays Beethoven's characteristic disregard for the performer and is in several places both technically and physically exacting, with many sudden changes of dynamic, metre and tempo.
	www.rehearsalarts.com /products/beethoven_missa.html (770 words)

	Amazon.com: Beethoven: Missa Solemnis: Music: Rainer Trost tenor,David Zinman conductor,Tonhalle Orchestra & ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		This Missa Solemnis by David Zinman conducting the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich is a joy in the exuberance it brings to the work.
		Beethoven composed the Missa Solemnis in five large blocked sections, Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, and Agnus Dei.
		Beethoven used a great deal of archaic material in the Missa Solemnis, including chant and modal scales interspersed with straighforward tonal sections of more immediate appeal.
	www.amazon.com /Beethoven-Solemnis-Rainer-Trost-tenor/dp/B000B8QFC8 (2708 words)

	Amazon.com: Beethoven - Missa Solemnis / Margiono * Robbin * Kendall * Miles * EBS * Gardiner: Music: Ludwig van ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		John Eliot Gardiner's interpretation of the Missa Solemnis stands as one of the crowning accomplishments of his career and one of the most impressive achievements of the period-instrument movement.
		It doesn't appear that Beethoven was a practicing Christian in the traditional 18th century sense (i.e., he didn't go to mass regularly), but he has been quoted as saying that he wanted this Mass to incite religious feelings in the audience.
		He said that the Missa was Beethoven arguing with God with that argument being be resolved in the 9th.
	www.amazon.com /Beethoven-Solemnis-Margiono-Kendall-Gardiner/dp/B0000057DP (1860 words)

	Beethoven's Music for Choir: The Missa Solemnis... Ludwig van Beethoven's website - Dominique PRÉVOT
		The Missa Solemnis of Beethoven, in D major (his second mass) is a monumental work, not only in its length, nearly 80 minutes, but above all by its content, absolutely stupefying.
		Note the difference between the two, Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis does not have one air for soloists: it is essentially a choral work, with active participation of the soloists.
		Beethoven dedicated much of his time and energy to the composition of this work: it was nearly four years before he finished it.
	www.lvbeethoven.com /Cedes/TheCds_Voice_Choir_MissaSolemnis.html (1786 words)

	Historical Circumstances (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Beethoven’s foremost pupil and patron at this time was Archduke Rudolph, the brother of the reigning Emperor of Austria.
		As Beethoven’s interest in true church music had developed and deepened, he felt that this event presented the perfect occasion to express his appreciation for the Archduke’s benevolence by writing a composition.
		Beethoven immersed himself in his work completely, devoting his mind and his heart to the writing of this Mass.
	www.its.caltech.edu /~tan/BeethovenMissaSolemnis/historic.html (169 words)

	Guardian \| Beethoven: Missa solemnis: Soustrot et al
		These include seven of the nine Beethoven symphonies as well as three overtures and, crowning the series, the Missa Solemnis on two discs with the Eroica Symphony.
		The comparisons with Wand's outstanding Beethoven cycle for RCA/BMG, made some 20 years later with the North West German Radio Orchestra, reveal that the interpretations themselves are remarkably similar.
		With high dynamic contrasts Wand is bold, strong and dramatic in the passages where the visionary Beethoven rethought the meaning of the liturgy; weighty in the Sanctus and, after the hushed dedication of the Agnus Dei, ever more incandescent in the culmination of the Dona Nobis Pacem, with its spine-tingling military incursions.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4561357-110760,00.html (459 words)

	Beethoven Missa Solemnis according to Sir John Eliot Gardiner, the Monteverdi Choir and the Orchestre Révolutionnaire ...
		Beethoven Missa Solemnis according to Sir John Eliot Gardiner, the Monteverdi Choir and the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique
		Beethoven's Missa Solemnis According to Sir John Eliot Gardiner and the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique
		Nevertheless, I can only think that Beethoven's contemporaries must have been knocked flat by it, making their way back to their homes after a performance, shaking their heads in bemused wonderment or a complete lack of understanding.
	www.culturekiosque.com /klassik/concert/missasolemnis.html (668 words)

	Beethoven's Missa Solemnis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		A brief biographical account of Beethoven's life prior to and during the composition of the Missa Solemnis along with some notes about Beethoven's compositional processes
		Beethoven's religious feelings which served as a backdrop to the composition of the Missa Solemnis
		A Movement by Movement Analysis of the Missa Solemnis
	www.its.caltech.edu /~tan/BeethovenMissaSolemnis (224 words)

	Beethoven Missa Solemnis [TB]: Classical Reviews- Dec 2002 MusicWeb(UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Perhaps the unique profundity of Beethoven's later music is felt most strongly in the great Missa Solemnis, whose motto - 'From the heart, may it go to the heart' - reflects the tremendous act of faith which was involved.
		Beethoven wrote the Mass of his own volition, in connection with the installation of his friend and benefactor the Archduke Rudolf as Archbishop of Olmütz, at Cologne Cathedral in 1820.
		In the Missa Solemnis, Beethoven set each of the five sections of the Ordinary to continuous music, symphonic in character.
	www.musicweb-international.com /classrev/2002/Dec02/Beethoven_Missa.htm (1027 words)

	BSO, Levine scale heights of majestic 'Missa' - The Boston Globe
		It doesn't shirk from the hardest truths, and even the radiant prayer for peace at the end is interrupted by trumpets and drums, the sounds of war.
		The BSO programmed the ''Missa Solemnis" to open Symphony Hall in 1900, and it has periodically resounded there since.
		The precision and energy he brought to his work may derive from the example of the great Italian conductor Arturo Toscanini, but the breadth and warmth are all his own.
	www.boston.com /ae/music/articles/2006/01/21/bso_levine_scale_heights_of_majestic_missa (505 words)

	SendMeMovies.com - Beethoven: Missa Solemnis: Metropolitan Orchestra of Montreal (1996) - DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Considered by Beethoven himself to be his most beautiful and splendid composition, the great composer invested many years in the preparation of "Missa Solemnis in D," studying earlier a capella music, liturgical requirements and the precise significance of each part of the mass text.
		Beethoven's musical composition broke new ground in the ways it integrated the solo quartet, choral and orchestral passages.
		This concert was recorded in the majestic Saint Jean-Baptiste Church in Montreal, Canada, performed by the Metropolitan Orchestra of Montreal under the baton of Joseph Reseigno.
	www.sendmemovies.com /pc-36683-198-beethoven-missa-solemnis-metropolitan-orchestra-of-montreal-1996-dvd.aspx (160 words)

	Beethoven Missa Solemnis [DW] : Classical Reviews- Nov 2002 MusicWeb(UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		I have loved this work all my life but this performance raises this glorious work to the highest plane; a position that will never be equalled let alone beaten.
		Beethoven had an ambivalent attitude to Roman Catholicism but in this incredible Mass he takes great pains to compose a work of great spirituality.
		There is a curious warm romanticism in the Sanctus and Benedictus in which an orchestral interlude sounds like a church organ and there is an extended violin solo of exquisite beauty, a beauty that is so good it is unbearable, however paradoxical that sounds.
	www.musicweb-international.com /classrev/2002/Nov02/Beethoven_Missa_Norrington.htm (874 words)

	Beethoven Missa Solemnis / Bruno Walter/NYP (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Bruno Walter called the Missa Solemnis Beethoven’s “masterwork among masterworks [that] spoke to me at once as with a prophet’s voice.” That was at age 15, yet he didn’t conduct it until his Munich tenure (1913-22) following the Vienna years with Mahler – sometime, that is, between ages 37 and 44.
		In all of the years after Munich, he led only three performances of the Missa in mid-April of 1948, of which this performance was the last of the series, whose solo quartet included a “Mr.
		Apropos of that performance, Toscanini came to the Missa even later than Walter – for the first time in 1934 and again in 1935 with the NYPSO, then in 1936 with the Vienna Phil and twice with the BBCSO in 1939.
	classicalcdreview.com /bwmanda.html (815 words)

	Beethoven - Missa Solemnis £4.38 UK
		A listener may be excused for thinking that Beethoven's sense of worship and awe is almost always a physically tangible sense of motion or movement, so often do these musicians make this Missa Solemnis dance right out, shaking with celebration.
		This is new-school Beethoven, aggressively influenced by the decades of scholarship and recreated performance practice we lump together under the banners of Early Music or Original Instruments.
		But, musically, a fine and committed update that will have you return and revisit all the transcendance you previously thought Beethoven had captured by the time he wrote it down.
	www.greatshopper.co.uk /index.php?Operation=ItemLookup&ItemId=B00005QHYY (318 words)

	YouTube - Beethoven - Missa Solemnis (D-Dur, opus 123) Sanctus
		Beethoven - Missa Solemnis (D-Dur, opus 123) Gloria I
		Beethoven - Missa Solemnis (D-Dur, opus 123) Credo I
		Beethoven - Missa Solemnis (D-Dur, opus 123) Credo II
	www.youtube.com /watch?v=ckhnpg_m390 (210 words)

	Ludwig van Beethoven MISSA SOLEMNIS in Full Score (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		One of the greatest masterworks in the history of music, Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis can be regarded as a vast choral symphony structured around the five divisions of the Ordinary of the Catholic Mass.
		Into it Beethoven poured his musical genius and most profound religious sentiments, creating a work too monumental for ordinary liturgical purposes, but one that stands with Bach’s Mass in B Minor as a sublime vision of faith—both deeply personal and universal.
		Beethoven wrote of the Mass: “My main purpose was to evoke in both the singers and auditors religious sentiments and to instill them permanently.” Whether he succeeded in his religious intent is arguable; that the work succeeds musically and artistically is indisputable.
	www.midi-classics.com /p1830.htm (342 words)

	Beethoven - Missa Solemnis: LSO @ Barbican Hall, London : concert review
		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.
		The Missa is almost on the margins of the repertoire because most orchestras back off the challenge of performing it.
		Beethoven's setting of the Latin Mass is hugely dramatic without being slightly theatrical; he responds to each word, phrase and line with specific gestures, for instance changing metre, key and tempo in each of the three lines of the Kyrie eleison, and Sir Colin's reading brought out many of these details.
	www.musicomh.com /classical/lso-missa_0206.htm (664 words)

	April 7: Beethoven's Solemn Mass premiers
		Ludwig von Beethoven, composer of the Missa Solemnis (Solemn Mass).
		Beethoven wrote it with his usual attention to detail.
		Beethoven wrote to Rudolph, "The day on which a High Mass composed by me will be performed during the ceremonies solemnized for Your Imperial Highness, will be the most glorious day of my life; and God will enlighten me so that my poor talents may contribute to the glorification of that solemn day."
	chi.gospelcom.net /DAILYF/2003/04/daily-04-07-2003.shtml (627 words)

	Classica / Beethoven's Missa solemnis under Leonard Bernstein (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Missa solemnis, scored for four solo voices, chorus, orchestra and organ, is one of the world's greatest choral works.
		Beethoven conceived the mass for a religious occasion, the installation of Archduke Rudolf as Archbishop of Olmütz in 1820.
		The performance is part of the complete cycle of Beethoven's symphonic and choral works featuring the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and the Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam conducted by Leonard Bernstein.
	www.unitel.de /classica/040897.htm (212 words)

	"Missa Solemnis"
		Beethoven's Missa Solemnis certainly belongs in that category, and the New York Philharmonic's recent presentation under Kurt Masur in Avery Fisher Hall was more than properly festive.
		It's a tricky balancing feat to pull off, but the Missa Solemnis must never sound easy; by the same token, only virtuoso musicians can face its ferocious challenges and hope to produce an adequate result.
		Beethoven scribbled, "From the heart / May it go again to the heart!" at the top of the Missa's first manuscript page, a fervent wish that seldom comes true as readily as it did on this occasion.
	www.newyorkmetro.com /nymetro/arts/music/classical/reviews/259 (312 words)

	:: The Flying Inkpot :: Beethoven : Missa Solemnis - Jascha Horenstein :: BBC Legends
		Though so much Horenstein material remains, frustratingly, unavailable, we must be thankful to record labels such as BBC Legends for taking a chance in releases such as these, which, when all is said and done, must be a niche market.
		This release of Beethoven’s towering Missa Solemnis stems from a live performance given in 1961 with the BBC Symphony Orchestra.
		The notes, eloquently written by Joel Lazar, note how Horenstein had insisted on piano rehearsals with the solo quartet, where many would be content with simply orchestral rehearsals coming closer to the date of performance.
	inkpot.com /classical/bbchorensteinmissa.html (516 words)

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