Beethoven - Symphonies No.4 & No.6 | Channel Classics CCSSA30710

Beethoven - Symphonies No.4 & No.6

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Label: Channel Classics

Cat No: CCSSA30710

Format: Hybrid SACD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 1st November 2010

Contents

Artists

Budapest Festival Orchestra

Conductor

Ivan Fischer

Works

Beethoven, Ludwig van

Symphony no.4 in B flat major, op.60
Symphony no.6 in F major, op.68 'Pastoral'

Artists

Budapest Festival Orchestra

Conductor

Ivan Fischer

About

"Two fundamentally different symphonies: both works explore feelings from an entirely different point of view. The Fourth is about human feelings and moods: obsession, love (what a melody in the second movement!), happiness, fun, wit, (Beethoven's most humorous finale!). The Sixth is about feelings that nature awakens in us: calmness, meditation, thankfulness. It has been an especially creative process to work on these masterpieces. We discovered that the Fourth Symphony sounds better with natural horns and trumpets. In the Pastorale we used a different seating arrangement, with the winds scattered among the strings, so that each soloist was surrounded by musicians playing the flow of Beethoven's nature music. After the storm, when we hear the first tentative call of the clarinet, answered by the horn from a different mountain, as it were, we found it appropriate to use a solo violin, which is gradually joined by the whole orchestra."
Iván Fischer

Review of Beethoven Symphony No.7:
…the performance of the Seventh ranks, without question, among the greatest ever recorded. With the Budapest Festival Orchestra playing as if their lives depended on it, it's superbly articulated, thrillingly elated and emotionally exhausting. Weber, on first hearing the work, wondered whether its composer was insane, and for once you understand why. Utterly compelling.’ - The Guardian

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