Euskadiko Orkestra & Orfeón Donostiarra by Beethoven, From (2024/2024), Conductor Jérémie Rhorer, Kursaal, Donostia / San Sebastian, Spain

The Fortnight recovers the Missa Solemnis , Beethoven's choral work par excellence, and the most difficult of this composer, technically speaking. It is considered by some to be the best mass ever composed and has not been performed in Fortnight since 2003. Under the direction of the French conductor Jérémie Rhorer, who was a disciple of Marc Minkowski, William Christie and Christopher Hogwood, the score will be performed by Euskadiko Orkestra, the Orfeón Donostiarra and soloists Chen Reiss, Victoria Karkacheva, Maximilian Schmitt and Hanno Müller-Brachmann. Composed in parallel with the 9th Symphony , although the Kyrie and the Sanctus were performed at the premiere of the symphony , the mass was not premiered in full until 1830, after the composer had died. Months before conducting it at the Fortnight, Rhorer will direct his ensemble Le Cercle de l'Harmonie in the interpretation of the Missa Solemnis at the Philharmonie de Paris, and these days he is directing the premiere of The Human Voice, a new production by the Royal Theater which brings together the work of the same name by Poulenc and Erwartung, by Schönberg.