[ Decca Collectors Edition / 5 CD ]
Release Date: Friday 10 August 2007
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"As befits Hogwood's performances, the L'Oiseau-Lyre recordings have a mingled size and clarity that tend to outshine not only Nimbus's obviously idiosyncratic sound but also the slightly grey sound of Norrington's EMI Seventh. Only time will tell whether Hogwood's Beethoven will wear as well as Norrington's on repeated hearings. Suffice it to say for the time being that at the first few hearings it has an often quite startling impact Beethoven the shock-haired revolutionary in fuli spate"
(Gramophone on the original review of Nos 7 & 8)
Symphony no 1 in C major, Op. 21
Symphony no 3 in E flat major, Op. 55 "Eroica"
Symphony no 2 in D major, Op. 36
Symphony no 6 in F major, Op. 68 "Pastoral"
Symphony no 4 in B flat major, Op. 60
Symphony no 5 in C minor, Op. 67
Coriolan Overture in C minor, Op. 62
Symphony no 7 in A major, Op. 92
Symphony no 8 in F major, Op. 93
Egmont, Op. 84: Overture
Symphony no 9 in D minor, Op. 125 "Choral"