Beethoven's Missa Solemnis By Otto Klemperer

On January 8, 2013, I mentioned the violin solo in Beethoven's Missa Solemnis in D major, Opus 123 recorded by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Robert Shaw, conductor, but provided no link to the music.  Yesterday, I found a comparable 1965 recording by the New Philharmonia Orchestra, Otto Klemperer, conductor [1].  The violin solo begins at approximately 00:53:61, but the movement starts at 00:48:24.  No doubt Robert Shaw's 1990 interpretation was patterned after that of Otto Klemperer whose recording was made 25 years earlier.

In both renditions, the music produced by the strings of the violin is like the Holy Spirit descending.  It is ethereal.  Music this sublime can only be divinely inspired.
 

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lbPapR6VfY
[Update 9-1-14]: The link cited above was closed.  Here is another Klemperer recording of the Beethoven's Missa Solemnis, this one with the Weiner Symphoniker: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcFEX191mm4  The violin solo begins at 5:00.  This 1955 performance, is as good, if not better than the 1965 version even though the sound of the recording is somewhat inferior.  See comment by by Andrew R. Weiss on July 28, 2002, at Amazon.com at http://www.amazon.com/Otto-Kl5emperer-Conducts-Beethoven/dp/B000001K5T.  Here is another link, this one to the complete 1955 Klemperer's recording of Beethoven's Missa Solemnis with the Wiener Symphoniker: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3X0I-2egC1s.  Here, the violin solo begins at approximately 00:49:29.  Just in case another uploader decides to close his account, here is yet another Klemperer recording of a live 1955 performance of Beethoven's Missa Solemnis, with Chor des Norddeutschen Rundfunks and Kölner Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZhgsX8T8Ow.  The sound on this recording is better than the Weiner Symphoniker's but the violin solo starts, rather surprisingly, in this one at approximately 00:49:29 as well.  Read Amazon.com's editorial and customer reviews here: http://www.amazon.com/Klemperer-conducts-Beethoven-Missa-Solemnis/dp/B000VX1QMC.
[Update 11-2-14]:  In Concert  on ETWN broadcasted on November 2, 2014, "[a] festive performance [of Beethoven's Missa Solemnis] from the Staatskapelle Dresden, under the direction of Fabio Luisi, celebrating the heartwarming event of the reopening of the Frauenkirche (Church of Our Lady) in Dresden [in 2002]."  The performance is as wonderful as Robert Shaw's recording in 1990.  At the time of this update, it is not available on Youtube.