Missa Solemnis Beethoven by Various, tre 13 lie 2022, Nuo (2022/2022), Dirigentas René Jacobs, Friedenskirche, Ludwigsburg, Germany

Conductor René Jacobs describes the Missa Solemnis in D major, in which Ludwig van Beethoven invested four years of meticulous research in both music history and theology, as brilliant and at the same time humble. In his mass, Beethoven freed the liturgical text from its strict conventions and created his very own musical interpretation of tradition. The RIAS Chamber Choir, four soloists and the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, under the direction of René acobs, fill the Friedenskirche with the “most sincere setting of the Mass”, according to Jacobs, and let the mass “go to the heart”, as Beethoven himself did original dedication inscription desired