Always higher! Composed between 1818 and 1823, the result of passionate theological and musical research in the library of the Archduke of Austria, to whom it is dedicated, the Missa solemnis is, according to Beethoven himself, his most ambitious composition. In this recording, René Jacobs shows us that it is also his highest work, an expression of the deep faith of a composer tender for humanity and confident in his art to the point of creating a work that transcends the liturgical form and musically imposes the universality of divine transcendence.