OAE/Noseda – review

Royal Festival Hall, LondonHow should one feel after a performance of Beethoven's Missa Solemnis? Elated at the memory of the jubilant Gloria? Uneasy at the disquiet of the Agnus Dei, and the way in which the choir seems to finish on an unresolved question? Or, strangely, consoled at the fact that the composer of the first and the second are the same man – that someone who can express such certainty can also be riven with doubt, just like any imperfect human?After this, the first collabo...

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