“From the heart, may it again go to the heart,” Beethoven said about this work. Intimately personal in some places, grand in its sprawling narrative at other times, this is Beethoven at the height of his creative genius.
Leslie Fagan, soprano
Krisztina Szabo, mezzo-soprano
Owen McCausland, tenor
Geoffrey Sirett, baritone
Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony
Grand Philharmonic Choir
Mark Vuorinen, conductor