Beethoven - Missa Solemnis - Klemperer

Posted By: slcn

Date: March 18, 2009

I've owned Otto Klemperer's classic 1965 recording of Beethoven's Missa solemnis in many guises, from LP and reel-to-reel tape to cassette and compact disc. Yet it's never sounded so good as it does via EMI-Toshiba's latest CD incarnation. Compared with the later CD transfer, there's more bloom in the higher frequencies, with slightly greater definition in the bass, and the massed voices register with increased heft and presence.

Tracks:
Disc: 1
1. Missa Solemnis, Op.123: Kyrie
2. Missa Solemnis, Op.123, Gloria: Gloria in excelisis Deo
3. Missa Solemnis, Op.123, Gloria: Qui tollis
4. Missa Solemnis, Op.123, Gloria: Quoniam tu solus sanctus
5. Missa Solemnis, Op.123, Credo: Credo in unum Denum
6. Missa Solemnis, Op.123, Credo: Et incarnatus est
7. Missa Solemnis, Op.123, Credo: Et resurrexit

Disc: 2
1. Missa Solemnis, Op.123: Sanctus (& Bendictus)
2. Missa Solemnis, Op.123, Agnus Dei: Agnus Dei
3. Missa Solemnis, Op.123, Agnus: Dona nobis pacem

Otto Klemperer - New Philharmonia Chorus & Orchestra
Elisabeth Soderstrom, Marga Hoffgen, Waldemar Kmentt, Martti Talvela

Released:
Recorded on September & October 1965
1996 EMI Toshiba, Japan TOCE-3128/9

download:
http://rapidshare.com/files/19...a_Solemnis_Klemperer.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/19...a_Solemnis_Klemperer.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/19...a_Solemnis_Klemperer.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/19...a_Solemnis_Klemperer.part4.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/19...a_Solemnis_Klemperer.part5.rar

Many thanks, renlifang, for offering this early Japanese pressing album.