LE FIGARO. - You close the Easter Festival by conducting Beethoven's
Missa Solemnis
. What does this work represent for you?
Jérémie Rhorer -
The first time I conducted it was ten years ago, at the Beethoven festival in Warsaw. I had the chance to make my debut at the Berlin Philharmonie with her, a year ago, replacing Daniel Barenboïm at the pulpit of her Staatskapelle, for the 200th anniversary of the work. Each time, I am struck by its testamentary dimension! Of all his works, this is the one that required the most work for Beethoven. He rightly saw it as an outcome. Technically, he pushes the development of counterpoint further than ever before. From a spiritual point of view, it is a work whose sacred dimension seems to me to come more from a humanism elevated to the level of myth than from Catholic tradition alone. In this sense there is something eminently Mozartian, but once again taken to the extreme, a mixture of joy and suffering...
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