Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 'Choral'
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Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 'Choral'
Robert Holzer (bass) Gabriele Lechner (soprano) Michael Pabst (tenor) Diane Elias (mezzo) / Zagreb Philharmonic Chorus & Orchestra, Richard Edlinger
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Release Date: Saturday 30 June 1990
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The Austrian conductor Richard Edlinger was born in Bregenz in 1958 and directed his first concerts at the age of seventeen. He completed his studies at the Vienna Academy in conducting and composition in 1982, by which time he had already acquired considerable professional experience. He was the youngest finalist in the 1983 Guido Cantelli Conductors' Competition at La Scala, Milan
Beethoven wrote nine symphonies, the first heralding the new century, in 1800, and the last completed in 1824. Although he made few changes to the composition of the orchestra itself, adding, when occasion demanded, one or two instruments more normally found in the opera-house, he expanded vastly the traditional form, developed in the time of Haydn and Mozart, reflecting the personal and political struggles of a period of immense change and turbulence. To his contemporaries he seemed an inimitable original, but to a number of his successors he seemed to have expanded the symphony to an intimidating extent.
