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Beethoven - Complete Symphonies, Selected Overtures
Beethoven: Symphonies Nos 1 - 9
Beethoven: Overture: The Consecration of the House, Coriolan
Beethoven: Overture: The Ruins of Athens
Beethoven: Overture: The Creatures of Prometheus
Beethoven: Overture: Marcia alla Turca
Our Price: £25.95 (£22.09 ex VAT)
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 6
Genre: Orchestral
Artist(s): Anima Eterna
Conductor(s): Jos van Immerseel
Release Date: 28th April 2008
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With their knowledge & experience of period-instrument performances of a varied repertoire – Classical (Mozart, Haydn), Austro-German Romantic (Brahms, Johann Strauss), Russian (Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Borodin), and finally Ravel – the musicians of Anima Eterna have returned to Beethoven with the perspective and mastery acquired as a symphony orchestra.
Jos van Immerseel has taken great care to find the correct combination of tempos, numerical forces and instruments for each symphony.
‘We know that Beethoven asked musicians very precise questions about the technical capacities of their instruments. So he knew exactly what he was doing when he pushed an instrument to the very limit of its possibilities. It’s partly the great technical difficulty that makes his music so revolutionary, but also the dramatic character this element confers on the music (and this dramatisation is further emphasised if one respects contemporary pitch standards, which were high – at least 440, if not more). That’s why it is so important to perform this music on period instruments..’ - Jos van Immerseel
This research into tempos, orchestral forces and instruments makes it possible not only to obtain a characteristic timbre, but also to push these period instruments to their technical limits and thus to rediscover something of the challenging nature of Beethoven’s music.
Jos van Immerseel has taken great care to find the correct combination of tempos, numerical forces and instruments for each symphony.
‘We know that Beethoven asked musicians very precise questions about the technical capacities of their instruments. So he knew exactly what he was doing when he pushed an instrument to the very limit of its possibilities. It’s partly the great technical difficulty that makes his music so revolutionary, but also the dramatic character this element confers on the music (and this dramatisation is further emphasised if one respects contemporary pitch standards, which were high – at least 440, if not more). That’s why it is so important to perform this music on period instruments..’ - Jos van Immerseel
This research into tempos, orchestral forces and instruments makes it possible not only to obtain a characteristic timbre, but also to push these period instruments to their technical limits and thus to rediscover something of the challenging nature of Beethoven’s music.
