Beethoven: Missa Solemnis – review

Schwanewilms/Jahns/LPO and Choir/Eschenbach etc(LPO)The latest issue from the London Philharmonic's own label is this idiosyncratic Missa Solemnis from 2008. The conductor is Christoph Eschenbach, and the performance has his trademark fondness for sonic beauty. Surprisingly, for a conductor often associated with slowish speeds, it's also uptempo and volatile. There's real elation in the outer sections of Gloria and Credo and the Agnus Dei, with its vision of impenitent, warring humanity, is tens...

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