William Steinberg

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In Steinberg's Gloria, the choir's accent on 'hominibus' is just right: quiet, not overdone...Steinberg hammers out 'consubstantialem Patri' in fine style...Peter Meven intones the the opening... — Gramophone Magazine, August 2012 More…

Release Date: 30th Jan 2012
Catalogue No: ICAC5054
Label: ica classics
Series: Legacy
Length: 74 minutes

Beethoven: Missa Solemnis in D major, Op. 123

Work length1:14:27

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$20.80

Heather Harper (soprano), Julia Hamari (contralto), Sven Olof Eliasson (tenor), Peter Meven (bass), Wolfram Gehring (organ)
WDR Rundfunkchor Köln, WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln
William Steinberg

Kyrie

Track length8:08

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Gloria. Gloria in excelsis Deo

Track length5:09

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Gloria. Qui tollis

Track length4:51

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Gloria. Quoniam

Track length7:07

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Credo. Credo in unum Deum

Track length4:28

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Credo. Et incarnatus est

Track length5:08

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Credo. Et resurrexit

Track length9:35

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Sanctus. Sanctus

Track length5:14

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Sanctus. Benedictus

Track length9:44

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Agnus Dei. Agnus Dei

Track length5:46

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Agnus Dei. Dona nobis pacem

Track length9:17

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$2.60

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William Steinberg (1899–1978), a native of Cologne who spent almost all his career in the U.S., was known principally as Music Director of the Pittsburg Symphony (1952–76), which he made into one of the world’s leading orchestras, and also as the distinguished Music Director of the Boston Symphony (1969–72) at the end of his career.

He was celebrated as an orchestra builder, co-founding the Palestine Orchestra which became the Israel Philharmonic as well as helping one of his mentors, Arturo Toscanini, to form the NBC Symphony Orchestra. His other mentor was Otto Klemperer and, like Klemperer, Steinberg conducted and recorded Beethoven, Brahms, Bruckner and Mahler superbly together with a fondness for 20th-century works. Steinberg’s recording of Beethoven’s Missa solemnis has never been issued before on CD and is in excellent stereo.

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August 2012

In Steinberg's Gloria, the choir's accent on 'hominibus' is just right: quiet, not overdone...Steinberg hammers out 'consubstantialem Patri' in fine style...Peter Meven intones the the opening to the Agnus Dei with gravitas.

July 2012

Steinberg impresses by keeping a firm hand on the tiller. Almost without exception I thought his tempi were judiciously chosen...Beethoven makes the most unreasonable demands on the chorus, the sopranos especially, yet the German singers never flinch and I admired the tenors who produce strong, incisive singing yet never force the tone

William Steinberg

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