With its tonal language of personal avowal, the first of Beethoven's two masses opens up new worlds of expression for the liturgical texts of the Mass which are expressly modern and point towards the future. Not to be considered a preliminary work to the Missa solemnis, the Mass in C stands independently and set standards for the further development of settings of the Mass in the 19th century. Beethoven wrote "I do not speak gladly of my Mass, or of myself, but I do<br />believe that I have treated the text in a manner in which only few have treated it." Carus presents this important work of church music history in a new critical edition by the Beethoven expert Ernst Herttrich.
Vladimir Lenin created this hugely significant Marxist text to explain fully the inevitable flaws and destructive power of Capitalism: that it would lead unavoidably to imperialism, monopolies and colonialism. He prophesied that those third world countries used merely as capitalist labour would have no choice but to join the Communist revolution in Russia.
Komiker-Legenden mit ihren populärsten Sketchen in Originalaufnahmen aus vier Jahrzehnten ! Man kennt sie ja alle, diese herrlichen Typen: COHRS, HERRICHT und PREIL, PAULE BECKERS, HARALD NIELSEN oder die unverwüstliche Kinderstimmen-Imitatorin LENI STATZ.