Beethoven, L.V. Missa Solemnis

Reseña del editor Otto Klemperer, particularly well known for his interpretation of Beethoven, conducts the Kölner Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester in this 1955 rendition of Beethove's Missa Solemnis. He is joined by soloists Annelies Kupper, Sieglinde Wagner, Rudolf Schock and Joseph Greindl in a concert which was Klemperer's first public performance of the work for 22 years. It is sourced from the original WDR master tapes and captures the intensity of a live occasion and the wonderful choral singing of the Kölner Rundfunkchor. Críticas If Otto Klemperer's 1966 EMI studio account of the Beethoven's Missa solemnis were the only one we had of him directing this work, it would still stamp him as one of the great interpreters of this towering score. But two years ago, Testament released a live 1963 performance, reviewed in 31:3, where I noted that there were few minor changes of tempo in that live account, which, owing to its inferior mono sound, could not compete with the later stereo version. This live 1955 account is different, slightly faster in varying degrees in each of the work's five sections; it offers a tauter, at times more intense performance than is found in either of the two later ones. If the soloists are not quite the match for those in the subsequent versions, they are more than adequate here, and within the limitations of mono technology, the sound is well focused--wide in dynamic range and frequency response. In short, this release is a confirmation of what other recordings from the pre-stereo era have suggested: a Klemperer who was more aggressively intense than the one of succeeding years, when, to my mind, he became musically confined to broadened tempos, at least in part, by a palsy-ridden body. For anyone interested in either the conductor or the Missa solemnis , this is a performance that should be heard. -- Fanfare, Mortimer H. Frank, January 2010

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