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Beethoven Symphonies 1-9 (1963 recordings) from: Universal Music Group List Price: CDN$ 29.99 City Travel Guides Price: CDN$ 25.49 You Save: CDN$4.50 (15%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0028942903623 Label: Universal Music Group Manufacturer: Universal Music Group Number Of Discs: 5 Publisher: Universal Music Group Release Date: January 01, 1990 Running Time: 332 minutes Studio: Universal Music Group Sales Rank: 1333 MPN: 429036 Disc 1:
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Editorial Review: Amazon.com essential recording: By general consensus, Herbert von Karajan's first (1963) Beethoven cycle for Deutsche Grammophon is the best of the four (!) that he recorded. The Berlin Philharmonic was in top form, and they had not yet made an artistic fetish out of the bland smoothness that typified the conductor's later recordings of this music (and just about everything else). Karajan's squeaky clean, emotionally cool Beethoven will always be something of an acquired taste, but this set makes the best possible case for it. --David Hurwitz Customer Reviews
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 Rating:  - about that 6th...this is a review of the much-maligned pastoral symphony is this set. most find fault with its fleet tempos but after listening to the much lauded bohm and walter, i find this is the only pastoral that doesn't put me to sleep, especially in the first movement. where with bohm you feel like it's a funeral march through the countryside, with karajan it actually feels like a joyous outing, full of sunshine, blue skies, and fresh air. it captures the sense of coming alive upon entering nature that the other recordings miss. my only gripe with this recording is that it has the karajan trademark string-laden sound. for the pastoral, i'd prefer a better balance with the winds. other than that, this is an excellent 6th. oh, the the rest of the cycle ... Read More: Rating:  - Sorry about the confusionyay for beethoven, he rules. he is truly worthy of the title and propriertoship of the classic music stuff Rating: - I don't own this but......i'm reviewing this to teach that stupid avril fan a lesson! 1)Didn't write his own music WTF? Of course he wrote his own music! 2)Had an easy life and he tried to make everyone think he had a difficult life. No, he didn't. Back then, no one did that. 3)He made the world think he was deaf (He copied the overrated Ray Charles who made the world think he was blind) C'mon! Beethoven came WAYYYYY before Charles, Charles copied beethoven. 4)He was a toy of the labels to make money There were NO record lebels when he was alive. 5)His "compositions" (That he didn't write because he asked his maids and the kids in the street to write them for him) are just garbage. The papers where they ... Read More: Rating: - Overall the best cycle of BeethovenIn spite of the strange arguements against Herbert K's 6th, I find this to be one of the finest interpretations of the Pastoral about. Instead of the usual slow intro and gradual speeding up of the older fashioned models of this piece we have here a slick and unforced manner. Not for some, but really this is the genius of the interpretation. Richard Osborne for some reason really discounted Karajan in this movement. I think he was wrong...instead period instrument people tend to do this opening of the Pastoral at the same tempo with which Karajan pursued his arguement! As to the 5th it is really an epic reading...no strange ritardando or even any affectation. Szell is let down by a recording that sounds monochrome in comparison ... Read More: Rating: - Bargain-priced, stirrring performancesIf, like me, you already have the well-known symphonies, this is a great set to round out your collection. It is keenly priced, and mostly the performances won't disappoint. I was arrested by a strident flute in the 6th and 9th symphonies a couple of times, but I already have good recordings of those works. Warmly recommended. |
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