Ludwig van Beethoven - Missa solemnis (Jérémie Rhorer)

Information

Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

• Missa solemnis in D Major, Op. 123

Chen Reiss, soprano

Varduhi Abrahamyan, mezzo-soprano

Daniel Behle, tenor

Tareq Nazmi, bass

Audi Jugendchorakademie

Le Cercle de L'Harmonie

Jérémie Rhorer, conductor

Date: 2025

Label: Alpha Classics

_____________________

Jérémie Rhorer and Le Cercle de l'Harmonie launch a new collaboration with Alpha Classics, with several projects planned, following the Mozart operas released on the label in 2016 and 2017. Here they tackle a monument of the sacred repertoire that is fascinating for its rich, complex, even ‘mysterious’ conception. Rhorer tells us that his interpretation pays close attention to the question of tempi, which have often become progressively slower and heavier since the post-Romantic period: the tempi have ‘a direct bearing on the vocal comfort of the singers, since breath control is one of the great difficulties of this work’, he says. For this recording, he has called in a quartet of top-flight soloists along with the Audi Jugendchorakademie, a remarkable German youth choir founded in 2007. In conjunction with his period-instrument orchestra, soon to celebrate its twentieth anniversary, they offer a passionate vision of Beethoven’s masterpiece.

High Resolution 24-bit / 96 kHz