Beethoven - Complete Symphonies
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Label: EMI
Cat No: 9156242
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 5
Release Date: 1st October 2012
Contents
Artists
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra ChorusVienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor
Simon RattleWorks
Symphonies 1-9 (complete)Artists
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra ChorusVienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor
Simon RattleAbout
The recordings were made 'live' after numerous performances of individual symphonies and complete cycles in Tokyo, Berlin and Vienna. Simon Rattle believes that a live performance has its own rhythm. The conductor, 'channelling his unrelenting energy', was something audiences and the critics noticed at the concerts in the Musikverein. “Rattle left all landmark conductors behind him, as he unleashed then tamed, shaped, and painted the musical forces to be heard here...[Beethoven] certainly has his best advocate in Simon Rattle”, claimed Austria’s Standard after one of the recorded concerts.
"The well-known, often played and much-loved Beethoven classics are not just reeled off in expert routine", observed the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in 2001, "but are thought through and spontaneously rendered at the highest levels. The musicians react directly to the smallest gestures from their conductor. It's not often that one experiences such perfection."
The Berliner Morgenpost said of the cycle's character and capacity to excite: “Rattle goes for clear contours, for rhythm, dynamics and above all physical energy. He doesn't pay tribute to a genius transfigured and endowed with mythical status by 200 years of tradition but presents us instead with a Beethoven for today.”
"A superbly played account...Rattle's must now be the strongest recommendation amongst modern Beethoven cycles." - BBC Music Magazine, March 2003
"Rattle allows the music freedom; his overall approach offers more warmth than that of other recorded performances... In the finale of the Ninth Rattle scores palpably with one of the finest quartets of soloists assembled for many years, and the decision to bring over the CBSO chorus is triumphantly justified, with incandescent choral sound." - Gramophone Magazine
"Anyone coming to [the symphonies] for the first time – or wanting to hear them played afresh – is in for a thrilling adventure with this new set. I can’t recommend it too highly." - Sunday Times, UK
"A musical revelation – dazzling, brimming with energy, strength and clarity" - Le Monde de la Musique, France
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