Tune in at 8L00 Boston Time for a very worthwhile concert.
Saturday, October 11, 2025
8:00 PMUniversally acknowledged as one of the world’s great concert halls, Symphony Hall’s 125-year anniversary concert features Beethoven’s monumental Missa Solemnis, the very music that was performed when the hall opened in 1900.
Andris Nelsons, conductor
Eleanor Lyons, soprano
Wiebke Lehmkuhl, mezzo-soprano
Klaus Florian Vogt, tenor
Franz-Josef Selig, bass
Tanglewood Festival Chorus
James Burton, conductorLudwig van BEETHOVEN Missa Solemnis
Learn more about the Boston Symphony Orchestra's 2025-2026 season on their site.
See Andris Nelsons and BSO President and CEO Chad Smith on Boston Public Radio, September 23, 2025.
In part three of an interview with CRB's Brian McCreath, BSO Concertmaster Nathan Cole describes the unique challenges of the violin solo in Beethoven's Missa Solemnis, and he also talks about the process of integrating new members of the Boston Symphony who joined the orchestra at the beginning of the season. To listen, use the player above, and read the transcript below.
INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPT:
Brian McCreath Missa Solemnis by
That page has the full ttranscript of the interview as well as a link to the audio of it.
For its part, the GSO has this to say on its performance detail page: https://www.bso.org/events/oct-9-11-beethoven-missa-solemnis?performance=2025-10-11-20%3A00 Meanwhile, I can'y get back to tell you more. Click where it says Missa Solemnist at the end of the list of artistic personnel for program notes.
Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis stands tall among the greatest sacred choral works, a monumental setting of the Mass text and the first piece performed in the then-new Symphony Hall in 1900. From soaring solo lines to striking contrasts — like the prayerful Agnus Dei interrupted by martial fanfares — Beethoven’s vision combines dramatic orchestration, virtuosic choral writing, and profound emotional depth.depth.
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