Regarded by Beethoven as his greatest work, his Missa Solemnis is surely a ‘bucket list’ piece to experience and marvel at for all music lovers.

Missa Solemnis

Llandaff Cathedral

Standing as a monument to sacred choral works, Beethoven's Missa Solemnis is a mass setting of immense weight and scale. Lofty grandeur and heavenward serenity dance with angular leaping figures, violent dynamic contrasts weave through the delicately orchestrated massed forces, and a searching quality reflective of his own faith, that of looking beyond our understanding at a numinous God, is never far from the surface. 

Sophie Harmsen

Events

Upcoming events

10 - 11 Apr, 2025

Missa Solemnis · BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Apr 11, 2025

BBC NOW - Missa Solemnis · Brangwyn Hall

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