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Beethoven: Missa Solemnis; Choral Fantasy Colin Davis CD
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  • Artist: Colin Davis
  • Year: 1994
  • Number of Discs: 2
  • UPC: 828767622323
  • Item Number: RCA762232
  • Release date: 03/28/2006
  • 1. Mass for soloists, chorus & orchestra in D major ("Missa Solemnis"), Op. 123, Kyrie
  • 2. Mass for soloists, chorus & orchestra in D major ("Missa Solemnis"), Op. 123, Gloria
  • 3. Mass for soloists, chorus & orchestra in D major ("Missa Solemnis"), Op. 123, Credo
  • 1. Mass for soloists, chorus & orchestra in D major ("Missa Solemnis"), Op. 123, Sanctus & Benedictus
  • 2. Mass for soloists, chorus & orchestra in D major ("Missa Solemnis"), Op. 123, Agnus Dei
  • 3. Fantasia for piano, chorus, and orchestra ("Choral Fantasy"), Op. 80
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Beethoven: Missa Solemnis; Choral Fantasy by Colin Davis on CD


If someone hold told you in 1965 that Colin Davis, the vigorous and vital young English conductor who championed Mozart with the same verve and vivacity as he did Stravinsky, would one day become the venerable music director of the voluptuous Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra with a contract from RCA to record the most grand and glorious works in the choral orchestral repertoire, would you have believed it possible? Whether it's possible or not is beside the point: the reality of the situation is this 1992 RCA recording of Beethoven's Missa Solemnis with the Bavarian big band plus singers. And the reality of the situation is that for the most part, it is so grand and so glorious that it collapses under its own portentous pretensions. As they were for Davis' Bavarian recordings of Ein Deutsches Requiem and the Requiems of Mozart and Verdi, this performance is of "the bigger, the better" school of interpretation. Everything is etched in stone in letters ten feet high and with just as much strength and agility. To say that Davis' performance is ponderous would be to understate the case. His textures are consistently thick. His tempos are consistently turgid. His interpretation is consistently torpid. And the combined effect is unremittingly tedious. There are moments and passages of vim and vigor, but for the most part, Davis is asleep in the pew. RCA's digital sound is stunning which, in a performance as soporific as Davis', is not necessarily a good idea. ~ James Leonard, Rovi
  • Artist: Colin Davis
  • Year: 1994
  • Number of Discs: 2
  • UPC: 828767622323
  • Item Number: RCA762232
  • Release date: 03/28/2006
  • Label: Rca Red Seal
  • Genre: Classical
  • Style: Choral, Romantic
  • Album Time: 109:07

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  • Beethoven: Missa Solemnis; Choral Fantasy Colin Davis CD
Beethoven: Missa Solemnis; Choral Fantasy Colin Davis CD