BERNSTEIN - BEETHOVEN • PART I

BEETHOVEN  : SYMPHONIES 1 • 8 • 9

The New York Times
"Conducted with intense dedication and soaring spirits by Mr. Bernstein, these recordings are superb, both visually and aurally." 

Release date: 10th Nov 2008

Deutsche Grammophon

 Reviews

“Bernstein on form is without peer and, since his component volumes are available separately, you may want to go for the highlights. Two instalments stand out. DG 073 4497GH takes in a fun-packed First Symphony indebted to Haydn and a self-consciously earth-shattering Ninth... DG 073 4502GH contains a controversially fleshed-out Op 131, stunningly dispatched by the strings of the Vienna Philharmonic, plus a smattering of overtures including a Bernstein favourite, König Stephan. If you don't know it, you should."

Grammophone May 2009 

  From the Director

 
Leonard Bernstein says about these recordings from the late 70s and 80s, all directed by Humphrey Burton, that there is "no single
body of work in the universe of orchestral music that is in any way comparable to this one."
"I offer [this cycle] to all music-loving ears as a testament of faith and of my most profound reactions to this greatest of all
composers."--Leonard Bernstein

  Product Description

In remembrance of his 90th birthday, Deutsche Grammophon releases a magnificent 7-DVD box set with Leonard Bernstein conducting and
talking about the works of Ludwig van Beethoven. From splendid places in Vienna and Amsterdam, Leonard Bernstein conducts the
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and the Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam. This ambitious and accomplished box includes all of Ludwig
van Beethoven's nine symphonies, the piano concertos with Krystian Zimerman, the monumental Missa solemnis and overtures together
with the string quartet op. 131, excerpts from The Creatures of Prometheus and the choral fantasy op. 80. 

 Bernstein - Beethoven Cycle Part 1

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Beethoven:

Symphony No. 1 in C major, Op. 21 Symphony No. 8 in F major, Op. 93 Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 'Choral' Gwyneth Jones (soprano), Hanna Schwarz (alto), René Kollo (tenor) & Kurt Moll (bass)

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Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor & Wiener Philharmoniker, Leonard Bernstein & Humphrey Burton (director)

with introductions to the symphonies by Bernstein
Recording Place & Date:
Musikverein, Vienna, November 1978 (Sinf. 1, 8)
Wiener Staatsoper, September 1979 (Sinf. 9)

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