Crouch End Festival Chorus Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis

His epic symphony not only received his first performance, but, a month earlier, Missa’s solemnis was also released.

The sublime quality of its production is amazing and the choir of the Crouch End Festival, accompanied by the Hanover band, did justice in its last concert at the Alexandra Palace atmospheric theater.

The great choral explosion of the opening of Kyrie Eleison of Missa’s solemnis was quickly resonant by three of the soloists.

The Crouch End Festival choir was accompanied by the Hanover band and directed by David Temple. (Image: David Winskill) Music director and director of Choir Directors of the Night David Temple had placed them behind the orchestra, so producing a wonderful effect where their voices seemed to fly from the center of the choir.

Then, the four (Sarah Tynan, Judy Louie Brown, Benjamin Hulett and Neal Davies) combined wonderfully to produce an extraordinary fabric game in Christre Eleison, evoking swallows chasing in a summer event.

Directed by the magnificent and controlled urgency of the choir, the insistent glory continued: a celebration and a declaration of the pure glory of God – Quoniam Your Solus Altimus: for the top.

The opening of the creed (a cry ‘I think, I think, I think’) he remembered many at the hearing of the raw passion that will be in Gospel music.

The tone softened a tender murmur with the mention of the Virgin Mary. The crucifixion, mortal gloomy, then the great statement and conviction in the heart of the Christian faith: the resurrexit gathering dies.

This was the fifth time that CEFC has performed Missa’s solemnis, but I did not have the feeling of going through the movements.

All nuances, each turning was planned and extracted from the choir, the soloists and the (excellent) Hannover band of David Temple.

The work is certainly not “solemn” in the sense of being on formal: it is a piece that is full of fragments of Beethoven’s symphonies and other works and sacrifices to artists of artists of the opportunity to be passionate to the point of fervor.

The choir was simply brilliant. His body language and complete commitment to the piece produced a remarkable performance and, for the enthusiastic audience, the fulfillment of the dedication Beethoven wrote in the score: “From the heart, he returns to the heart!”

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