Beethoven: Christ on the Mount of Olives Buy:FLAC - 24 bit 96 kHz while Beethoven was also writing

while Beethoven was also writing the Eroica Symphony

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Beethoven: Christ on the Mount of Olives Buy:FLAC - 24 bit 96 kHz while Beethoven was also writingComposed in 1803, while Beethoven was also writing the Eroica Symphony, Christ on the Mount of Olives is the composer's only oratorio, and combines the emotive force of his later Missa Solemnis with the theatre of a Bach Passion. With orchestra, chorus and soloists, it tells the story of Jesus prayer and arrest in the Garden of Gethsemane and reflects the emotional pressure Beethoven was under at the time he composed the work. This recording by Sir