Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 1-9 (complete)
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 1-9 (complete)
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Claudio Abbado
[ EuroArts DVD / 4 DVD ]
Release Date: Friday 28 January 2022
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In February 2001, the Berliner Philharmoniker and Claudio Abbado were guests at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome with all Beethoven symphonies. Their success was overwhelming with standing ovations after each performance, and the press hailed them performances of the century.
For years, Claudio Abbado had been immersing himself ever deeper in the music of Beethoven. For his latest performances, he took the critical edition by the English musicologist Jonathan Del Mar.
"I always try to see and feel the music anew," he explained. There were faster tempos and new tempo relationships between individual movements, compared with his earlier versions; a departure from the customary full string section; a lean, transparent orchestral sound, thrilling drama, spirited Italian brio, and at the same time sensitive lyrical and songful passages, all integral parts of Abbado's approach to the symphonies.
This exclusive box containing the complete Beethoven Symphonies performed by the Berliner Philharmoniker includes a special multi-angle feature: each disc offers sequences from the "conductor camera" showing the maestro from his musicians perspective
Including 26 min interview "Abbado on Beethoven"
DVD Picture: 16:9 - NTSC
DVD Sound: PCM Stereo, DTS 5.1
Language/subtitles: E / D / F/ I / S
Region code: 0 (worldwide)
"Vigorous and magnificent, furiously direct - but at the same time blessed with an astounding richness of detail.."
Stuttgarter Zeitung
"Abbado, a Furtwängler admirer in principle, seems ever more Italian, his tauter lyricism allied to a sense of forward movement influenced, we are told, by period practice. The surprise is not the Mediterranean luminosity and scrupulous attention to instrumental detail - one expects nothing less from this source - but the animating sense of line. The Seventh Symphony... knows precisely where it's going and why... The sense of joy present throughout is overwhelming by the close." (Gramophone)
"the joy and the life behind these performances makes it pretty plain why he chose this set as his "legacy set" for Beethoven...the peerless playing and outstanding direction make it a joy to experience." (MusicWeb)
