Bach – Mass in B minor BWV 232 (Karl Richter)
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BEETHOVEN’S ninth and final symphony represents the apex of the great German composer’s works.
Diana Damrau and Xavier de Maistre will be performing at the Schubertiade.

Members of the St Thomas Boys Choir in Leipzig.
To be featured at the Bachfest Leipzig’s opening concert.
Orthodox Male Choir will be performing at the Ravenna Festival.
The performance of “Daiku”, “The Ninth”, Beethoven’s 9th Symphony with 10000 (amateur) chorus singers is a Japanese highlight every year in the end of December. Here is the last movement, recorded at the 2011 concert in Osaka, this year dedicated especially to the memory of the victims of the desastrous tsunami in March.
Keiko Yokoyama, soprano
Masako Teshima, mezzo-soprano
Satoshi Nishimura, tenor
Eijiro Kai, baritone
Choir of the 10000 from Osaka and Sendai
Suntory Orchestra of the 10000
Sendai Philharmonic Orchestra
Yutaka Sado, conductor
Recorded at Osaka-Jo Hall, Osaka / Miyagi Gauin Joshi Daigaku Hall, Sendai, 2011