Monteverdi Choir:Gardiner - Beethoven: Missa Solemnis

This album was recorded live at the Barbican. It features soloists Lucy Crowe (soprano), Jennifer Johnston (mezzo), James Gilchrist (tenor), Matthew Rose (bass).Soloists, choir, orchestra and conductor were praised for this incandescent reading of Beethoven's masterpiece - a very personal statement of the composer's faith, rarely heard in concert halls.Broadcast live by the BBC, this extraordinary concert was held during a sell-out tour, which brought the musicians to Paris, Amsterdam, Vienna, Pisa, Budapest, Cologne, Baden-Baden, Berne, Luxembourg, New York, Chapel Hill, Costa Mesa - to great acclaim and standing ovations.The album is packaged in a digipack and contains a 36 pages booklet with original notes by BBC presenter and music journalist Stephen Johnson, translated in German and French.