FULL MISSA SOLEMNIS (Beethoven) Bratislava 2017 Emma Pearson, Hermine Haselböck, Stephan Rügamer, Peter Mikuláš

Information on the Performance

• Work Title: Missa solemnis  
• Composer: Beethoven Ludwig van  
• Libretto: Latin mass text  
• Venue & Opera Company: Concert Hall of Slovak Philharmonic, Bratislava, Slovakia  
• Recorded: March 24, 2017
• Type: Concert Live
• Singers: Emma Pearson, Hermine Haselböck, Stephan Rügamer, Peter Mikuláš
• Conductor: Bertrand de Billy  
• Orchestra: Slovak Philharmonic  
• Chorus: Slovak Philharmonic Choir  
• Chorus Master: Thomas Lang  
• Stage Director:   
• Costume Designer:   

Information about the Recording

• Published by: filharmonia.sk  
• Date Published: 2017  
• Format: Streaming
• Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
• Subtitles: nosubs  

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE

  The Missa solemnis in D major, Op. 123, is a Solemn Mass composed by Ludwig van Beethoven from 1819 to 1823. It was first performed on 7 April 1824 in Saint Petersburg, Russia, under the auspices of Beethoven’s patron Prince Nikolai Galitzin; an incomplete performance was given in Vienna on 7 May 1824, when the Kyrie, Credo, and Agnus Dei were conducted by the composer. It is generally considered one of the composer’s supreme achievements and, along with Bach’s Mass in B minor, one of the most significant Mass settings of the common practice period.

  Written around the same time as his Ninth Symphony, it is Beethoven’s second setting of the Mass, after his Mass in C major, Op. 86. The work was dedicated to Archduke Rudolf of Austria, archbishop of Olmütz, Beethoven’s foremost patron as well as pupil and friend. The copy presented to Rudolf was inscribed “Von Herzen—Möge es wieder—Zu Herzen gehn!” (“From the heart – may it return to the heart!”)

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