Beethoven - Missa Solemnis (D-Dur, opus 123) Gloria II

Gloria II
Edda Moser - Sopran
Hanna Schwarz - Mezzosopran
Rene Kollo - Tenor
Kurt Moll - Bass
Concertgebouw Orchestra
Conductor, Leonard Bernsrein

Category:

Music

Tags:

• beethoven
• missa
• solemnis

[thegoddescomposer]

beethoven wrote one of the greatest fuga ever in 5.32 he was deaf m , in his mind and his heart and his strenght, his power of god to make this kind of masterpieces,

[fringefries]

I don't have much of an appreciation for the other parts but this piece is ecstatic and melodically inspiring. As if pulled from the book of life itself. Oh, God I can almost ride on every single note to infinity. It's far richer than anything from Handels Messiah.

[SirSebastianWang]

@Lassannn

Actually, it ends on the tonic chord, but it seems like the dominant because of the traditional plagal cadence used at the end of works like this. The music had modulated to G major, and then moved back to D major on the final chords, but instead of modulating back to the home key, Beethoven treats the G major chord as the tonic, instead of the subdominant that it is. That's why you get the sudden, incomplete feel in the music, even though it ends on the tonic.

[Lassannn]

It ends on the dominant chord, not the tonic, that's so cool.

[SlyFox616]

Bernstein isn't the flamboyant clown here, Madame Moser is.

[bcollignon]

The greatest choral work ever!

[xatuuatx]

I love Leonard Bernstein as a conductor. I also find it ironic that he was both Jewish and gay, and he is conducting one of the most sublime masses ever written!

[Paracelsus72]

Yes, you know I don't understand how Beethoven wrote the 'Gloria' without being completely overwhelmed by the intensity and almost unbearable energy of the music. It makes me feel quite mad just listening to it.

[VerbalBlitzkrieg]

Bernstein is too much of a flamboyant clown

[slmonge]

@choletalenda

Chopin wrote music that was in many instances superior to those you list except for Beethoven and he was not German. Also, it is laughable that you ignorantly list the Hungerian Liszt as German. Saint Saens, Dvorak, Ravel, Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky to add only a few weren't German. Maybe you should take a listen. And by the way what happened to Mozart who might as well be considered German. And in case you didn't know or forgot Mendelssohn was Jewish.