FULL Messe C-Dur (Beethoven) Pristina 2016 Elbenita Kajtazi, Flaka Goranci, Liridon Sadriu, Noel Bouley
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Messe C-Dur or Mass in C
- Composer: Beethoven Ludwig van
- Libretto: traditional
- Venue & Opera Company: Cathedral 'MOTHER THERESA', Pristina, Kosovo
- Recorded: November 15, 2016
- Type: Concert Live
- Singers: Elbenita Kajtazi, Flaka Goranci, Liridon Sadriu, Noel Bouley
- Conductor: Rafet RUDI
- Orchestra: KOSOVA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
- Chorus: KOSOVA PHILHARMONIC CHOIR
- Stage Director:
- Costume Designer:
Information about the Recording
- Published by: Rafet Rudi composer & conductor
- Date Published: 2017
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 3 Audio:3
- Subtitles: nosubs
- Video Recording from: YouTube FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Ludwig van Beethoven composed the Mass in C major, Op. 86, to a commission from Prince Nikolaus Esterházy II in 1807. The mass, scored for four vocal soloists, choir and orchestra, was premiered that year by the Prince’s musical forces in Eisenstadt. Beethoven performed parts of it in his 1808 concert featuring the premieres of four major works including his Fifth Symphony. The mass was published in 1812 by Breitkopf & Härtel.
Both the Prince and contemporary critic E. T. A. Hoffmann were generally displeased by the work, though the latter still considered it “entirely worthy of the great master [because of its] inner structure [and] intelligent orchestration”. The work has since been overshadowed by the later and better known Missa solemnis, though critics such as Michael Moore have noted the Mass in C major’s superiority in “directness and an emotional content”.