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BBC NOW - Missa Solemnis
Friday 11 April 2025
Brangwyn Hall Guildhall, Swansea
Doors: 19:30
Description
Beethoven Missa solemnis
Andrew Manze conductor
Carolyn Sampson soprano
Sophie Harmsen mezzo soprano
Ed Lyon tenor
Darren Jeffery bass
BBC National Chorus of Wales
MAGNIFICENT | REVERENTIAL | WORLD-CLASS
Standing as a monument to sacred choral works, Beethoven's Missa Solemnis is a mass setting of immense weight and scale. Lofty grandeur and heavenward serenity dance with angular leaping figures, violent dynamic contrasts weave through the delicately orchestrated massed forces, and a searching quality reflective of his own faith, that of looking beyond our understanding at a numinous God, is never far from the surface.
Regarded by Beethoven as his greatest work, his Missa Solemnis is surely a 'bucket list' piece to experience and marvel at for all music lovers, and with an acclaimed line up of soloists stepping up alongside the BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales, this is a performance not to be missed.
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