The challenge of the late mass, which Beethoven himself described as 'thegreatest work(s) I have written so far', is extraordinary. Masterpieces with similarly intense artistic demands on all performers can be counted on one hand. Nevertheless, the story of the work's creation begins quite unspectacularly: in 1819, Archduke Rudolph, the composer's former pupil and loyal … [Read more...] about ‘From the heart – May it go to the heart again!’