Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 & Egmont Overture

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Tennstedt takes a briskish tempo in the opening movement...With warm-bodied string and a fresh-voiced wind choir, the LPO was also the ideal medium for Tennstedt's reading. Their playing is a... — Gramophone Magazine, July 2015 More…

Release Date: 5th May 2015
Catalogue No: LPO0085
Label: LPO
Length: 55 minutes

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Beethoven: Egmont Overture, Op. 84

Work length9:22

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Klaus Tennstedt, London Philharmonic Orchestra
Recorded: 26 September 1991
Recording Venue: Southbank Centre's Royal Festival Hall, London, UK

Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68 'Pastoral'

Work length45:54

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Klaus Tennstedt, London Philharmonic Orchestra
Recorded: 21 February 1992
Recording Venue: Southbank Centre's Royal Festival Hall, London, UK

I. Allegro ma non troppo

Track length12:15

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II. Andante molto moto

Track length13:08

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III. Allegro

Track length5:49

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IV. Allegro

Track length3:54

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V. Allegretto

Track length10:48

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Recorded live at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall, London, on 26 September 1991 (Egmont Overture) and 21 February 1992 (Symphony No. 6).

Beethoven’s unique placing at the threshold of the Classical and Romantic eras in music allowed such a work as the ‘Pastoral’ Symphony to achieve greatness, through its evocation of the natural world which served to praise the Creator himself. ‘More an expression of feeling than painting’, said Beethoven, and it is true that, while the atmosphere of the countryside pervades every bar – scenes of running brooks, storms and village life – this Symphony can be fully enjoyed without resort to mental pictures of shepherds, peasants and cuckoos.

Also on the disc is Beethoven’s Overture to Goethe’s Egmont, the play for which Beethoven wrote incidental music in 1789. Set in 16th-century Flanders at the time of the revolution against Spanish oppression, the play was revived again in 1810, a significant time when Vienna was under occupation by Napoleon’s troops.

Leading the London Philharmonic Orchestra on these two archive recordings is former Principal Conductor and Music Director Klaus Tennstedt, whose tenure with the LPO was characterised by his specialism in German repertoire, and the energy and emotional involvement which endeared him with musicians and audiences alike.

Tennstedt held Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony very close to his heart, even selecting his studio recording of the work with the LPO for his appearance on Desert Island Discs in 1991. He added that ‘this orchestra is so flexible and it is a romantic orchestra and I feel I am a romantic conductor so we are good together … I think no orchestra in the world can now better play than the London Philharmonic.’

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July 2015

Tennstedt takes a briskish tempo in the opening movement...With warm-bodied string and a fresh-voiced wind choir, the LPO was also the ideal medium for Tennstedt's reading. Their playing is a joy, finely sprung ostinato rhythms buoying the visionary wind descants that carol above...This is a visionary performance and it deserves its own quietus.

3rd May 2015

These live recordings are a welcome reminder of Tennstedt’s fruitful relationship with the LPO...one may quarrel with details...but the performance has lovely atmosphere, and movements, not least the bucolic scherzo, characterised to perfection.

Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 & Egmont Overture

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