Beethoven: Symphony No. 3; Mass in D

This 1938 recording of Beethoven's Missa Solemnis by Sergey Koussevitzky conducting the Boston Symphony Orchestra was never issued on LP. And with good reason: decently enough recorded for the standards of its day, the engineers so ineptly overdubbed the recording as to make it almost unlistenable. Thankfully, even if there are still a handful of awkward fades and one or two missing notes, Mark Obert-Thorn's transfer digs the music out of the grooves and restores it to thrilling black and white. As historic recording ... Read More

This 1938 recording of Beethoven's Missa Solemnis by Sergey Koussevitzky conducting the Boston Symphony Orchestra was never issued on LP. And with good reason: decently enough recorded for the standards of its day, the engineers so ineptly overdubbed the recording as to make it almost unlistenable. Thankfully, even if there are still a handful of awkward fades and one or two missing notes, Mark Obert-Thorn's transfer digs the music out of the grooves and restores it to thrilling black and white. As historic recording transfers go, Obert-Thorn's reclamation of Koussevitzky's Missa Solemnis is as good as it gets. The performance itself is nearly as good as it gets. The first recording of the work done in America, Koussevitzky's Missa Solemnis is very different from any other performances then or now. It's subjective, but with the greatest possible humility; superbly played and singingly phrased, but with plenty of muscle and even more soul. Which is ultimately the best thing about Koussevitzky's Missa... Read Less

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