Too huge for church services and banned from concert halls because of its religious content, Beethoven’s ‘Missa Solemnis’ exceeded all limits. Philippe Herreweghe is more at home than anyone in the abundant splendour and dizzying complexity of this mass. ‘What I am concerned with is rendering the emotion of every word to the full’, he says. You are welcome to come and judge for yourself whether he also lives up to this promise live, with a first-rate international ensemble.