Orchestral

Missa Solemnis – Beethoven

As part of my Conducting Style and Analysis class this semester, we are required to keep a listening journal for a required listening list of about 35 choral pieces. I thought these would be perfect to share as Noteworthy Pieces, as well as give me another medium in which I can develop my writing about music. The piece on the list is Beethoven’s “Missa Solemnis.” I found a great recording of Leonard Bernstein conducting the Concertgebouw Orchestra performance of this piece. I love the dynamics in this piece, because I feel they are both appropriate and unexpected at the...