… The dedication to the Missa Solemnis was May heart speak to heart. This is a work whose infrequent performance stirs me to depths when I hear it, so reverential, so supernal is it. Few know that Beethoven himself regarded the Missa as his greatest composition. It must surely be his most spiritual composition, a perfect expression of the link between man and God.
Source: The Notebooks of Paul Brunton | • Listen | | |