Radio 3 in Concert: Missa Solemnis - A Mount Everest of Music

Jan Caeyers conducts Le Concert Olympique, the Arnold Schoenberg Chorus of Vienna and soloists in a performance of Beethoven's Missa Solemnis, recorded in Antwerp, Belgium, in February 2018. Beethoven's sublime but fearsome mass is recreated by conductor and Beethoven scholar Jan Caeyer and Le Concert Olympique, a hand-picked ensemble of 45 instrumentalists drawn from the whole of Europe. They are joined by the Arnold Schoenberg Chorus of Vienna and a starry line-up of soloists at the Blue Hall. Beethoven: Missa Solemnis in D, Op 123. Malin Hartelius (soprano), Sarah Connolly (mezzo), Steve Davislim (tenor), Hanno Müller-Brachmann (bass), Arnold Schoenberg Chorus, Le Concert Olympique, Jan Caeyers (conductor) c 8.45. Recordings from two of Radio 3's current New Generation Artists. Brahms: Six Pieces for piano, Op 118. Alexander Gadjiev (piano). Dvorak: String Quartet No 13 in G, Op 106. Aris String Quartet