Beethoven - Symphony No. 9 - LPO: LPO0026 - CD or download

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Without doubt the heart of this performance resides in the Elysian stretches of a deeply poetic and extremely leisurely Adagio, most memorably the rich lower strings near the start of the first... — Gramophone Magazine, April 2009 More…

Release Date: 2nd Feb 2009
Catalogue No: LPO0026
Label: LPO
Length: 71 minutes

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Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 'Choral'

Work length1:11:55

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Klaus Tennstedt, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Lucia Popp, Ann Murray, Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), René Pape (bass), London Philharmonic Choir

I. Allegro ma non troppo, un poco maestoso

Track length16:56

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II. Molto vivace

Track length9:27

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III. Adagio molto e cantabile

Track length18:41

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IV. Presto

Track length26:51

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In one of his last concerts with the London Philharmonic Orchestra before his retirement from public performance, Klaus Tennstedt turned to Beethoven’s unequivocal proclamation of human love and brotherhood: the Ninth Symphony. As the conductor struggled with illness, every one of his late concerts in London became an event, as if any could be his last. Tennstedt’s singularly grand and lengthy view of Beethoven’s music was unique; that, and the acute atmosphere of his last London appearances, shines through in this performance, one of a pair of concerts marking the Orchestra’s 60th anniversary. Tenndstedt was in great demand as a conductor during his life. Besides the London Philharmonic Orchestra he worked with many leading orchestras including the North German Radio Symphony Orchestra and all of the major American orchestras.

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April 2009

Without doubt the heart of this performance resides in the Elysian stretches of a deeply poetic and extremely leisurely Adagio, most memorably the rich lower strings near the start of the first variation… and the beguiling gentle violins that usher in the variation that follows...

2011 edition

The performance stands comparison with any rival version in the thrusting intensity of the playing, brisk in the first movement with timpani prominent, lilting in the Scherzo...radiant in the slow movement, with the LPO strings at their most mellifluous, and violent at the start of the choral finale.

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