Prom 69
T192694670
Part of the BBC Proms.
Archive :: production:T192694670, concert:S1939085351, venue:V221
Beethoven's Missa Solemnis
Finding terror alongside spiritual awe, raising questions and doubts as well as proclaiming faith, Beethoven's Missa solemnis is a work of visceral power - a public statement of intensely private belief.'From the heart - may it return to the heart!; the composer wrote at the top of a score that stretched the proportions and ambitions of the orchestral Mass to new limits. Sir John Eliot Gardiner - whose two benchmark recordings trace an ever-evolving relationship with the piece over many decades - conducts his period-instrument Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique and the Monteverdi Choir.
