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Beethoven - Symphonies | Decca 4759090

Beethoven - Symphonies

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Label: Decca

Cat No: 4759090

Barcode: 0028947590903

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 7

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 9th August 2007

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Contents

Works

Beethoven
Symphonies 1-9

Beethoven
Overture - Egmont, op.84

Beethoven
Overture - Coriolan, op.62

Beethoven
Overture - Leonora no.3

Artists

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Chicago Symphony Chorus

Conductor

Sir Georg Solti

Works

Beethoven
Symphonies 1-9

Beethoven
Overture - Egmont, op.84

Beethoven
Overture - Coriolan, op.62

Beethoven
Overture - Leonora no.3

Artists

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Chicago Symphony Chorus

Conductor

Sir Georg Solti

About

This is Sir Georg Solti’s first complete Beethoven cycle and recorded between May 1972 and September 1974 in Chicago during his first years as Music Director there (an appointment he took up in 1969). The original LP release included a 50 minute discussion in which Solti discusses the symphonies with the celebrated writer and musicologist William Mann. It is now included here on CD for the first time and the set is reissued to coincide with the 10th anniversary of Solti’s death in 1997.

Track list:

CD 1:

Symphony No.1 in C major, op.21
[1] I Adagio molto - Allegro con brio 8:42 • [2] II Andante cantabile con moto 7:50 • [3] III Menuetto: Allegro molto e vivace 3:41 • [4] IV Adagio - Allegro molto e vivace 5:40

Symphony No.2 in D major, op.36
[5] I Adagio molto - Allegro con brio 13:02 • [6] IILarghetto 13:21 • [7] III Scherzo: Allegro 3:38 • [8] IV Allegro molto 6:32

CD 2:

Symphony No.3 in E flat major, op.55 "Eroica"
[1] I Allegro con brio 19:34 • [2] II Marcia funebre: Adagio assai 17:33 • [3] III Scherzo: Allegro vivace 5:54 • [4] IV Finale: Allegro molto 12:19
[5] Overture "Egmont", op.84 8:52
[6] Overture "Coriolan", op.62 8:09

CD 3:

Symphony No.4 in B flat major, op.60
[1] I Adagio - Allegro vivace 12:05
[2] II Adagio 11:00
[3] III Allegro vivace 5:22
[4] IV Allegro ma non troppo 6:44

Symphony No.5 in C minor, op.67
[5] I Allegro con brio 8:16
[6] II Andante con moto 11:08
[7] III Allegro- 5:32
[8] IV Allegro 11:32

CD 4:

Symphony No.6 in F major, op.68 "Pastoral"
[1] I Allegro ma non troppo 12:27 "Awakening of cheerful feelings upon arring in the country"
[2] II Andante molto mosso 13:22 "By the brook"
[3] III Allegro 5:20 "Merry gathering of the country folk"
[4] IV Allegro 3:47 "Thunderstorm"
[5] V Allegretto 9:47 "Shepherd's song. Happy and thankful feelings after the storm"
[6] Overture "Leonora" No.3 13:57

CD 5:

Symphony No.7 in A major, op.92
[1] I Poco sostenuto - Vivace 14:38
[2] II Allegretto 8:55
[3] III Presto 9:26
[4] IV Allegro con brio 9:05

Symphony No.8 in F major, op. 93

[5] I Allegro vivace e con brio 10:07
[6] II Allegretto scherzando 4:11
[7] III Tempo di menuetto 5:36
[8] IV Allegro vivace 7:47

CD 6:

Symphony No.9 in D minor, op.125
[1] I Allegro ma non troppo, un poco maestoso 17:42
[2] II Molto vivace 13:59
[3] III Adagio molto e cantabile 19:47
[4] IV Presto - Allegro assai - Andante maestoso - Allegro ebergico, sempre ben marcato 24:58

Bonus CD

Sir Georg Solti in conversation with William Mann - a discussion of the Beethoven Symphonies 45:52


Digital Status: ADD
Recorded: Medinah Temple, Chicago, May 1972-September 1974

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