The Cleveland Orchestra: Franz Welser-Most - Beethoven's Missa Solemnis

The Cleveland Orchestra: Franz Welser-Most - Beethoven's Missa Solemnis at Severance Music Center

Beethoven didn't write Missa solemnis to sit quietly in the background. He wrote music that reaches for something enormous—and hearing an orchestra, chorus, and soloists chase that feeling together is the whole reason to go.

On Jan. 14 in Cleveland, Franz Welser-Möst leads the Orchestra at Mandel Concert Hall in a program built around one of Beethoven’s most demanding and ambitious creations. The Cleveland Orchestra describes the work as rivaled only by the Ninth Symphony in power and scope, and that alone tells you this is not background music. It is a full performance of tension, release, and choral breadth.

The cast raises the stakes even more. Golda Schultz, Taylor Raven, and Julian Prégardien join the Orchestra and Chorus, bringing named voices to music that depends on both individual expression and collective impact. For listeners who care about Beethoven at his most searching, this is the kind of performance that rewards being present from the first phrase to the last.

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