MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Beethoven: Symphony 9 'Choral'
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Beethoven: Symphony 9 'Choral'
Yvonne Kenny (soprano) Sarah Walker (mezzo-soprano) Patrick Power (tenor) / Petteri Salomaa (bass) / London Classical Players, Roger Norrington
[ Virgin Virgo / CD ]
Release Date: Tuesday 19 October 2004
"For the Ninth, Norrington has a larger orchestra of some 65 players, with the 50-strong Schutz Choir in the finale. But the sonic mix is very much as it was on the earlier record, with glimmering, vibrato-free strings, plaintive woodwinds, keen-toned and at times strangely keening horns and trumpets, and those wonderful small, hard, sonically explosive drums."
(Gramophone)
"For the Ninth, Norrington has a larger orchestra of some 65 players, with the 50-strong Schutz Choir in the finale. But the sonic mix is very much as it was on the earlier record, with glimmering, vibrato-free strings, plaintive woodwinds, keen-toned and at times strangely keening horns and trumpets, and those wonderful small, hard, sonically explosive drums. As on the earlier record. Norrington takes Beethoven's metronome marks seriously (and writes more fully about them in his accompanying performance note); in the Ninth this leads to some tempos that are slower than usual, though the conducting and playing are generally lean and athletic, unswervingly dramatic, with the same magpie instinct for carrying off a mass of objets trouves from within Beethoven's storehouse of strangely imagined orchestral effects."
(Gramophone Magazine)
