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Beethoven - Symphony No.9 | Orfeo - Orfeo d'Or C729081

Beethoven - Symphony No.9

Label: Orfeo - Orfeo d'Or

Cat No: C729081

Barcode: 4011790729121

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 26th May 2008

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Contents

Artists

Lisa della Casa
Hilde Rossel-Majdan
Waldemar Kmentt
Otto Edelmann
Wiener Singverein
Vienna Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Herbert von Karajan

Works

Beethoven, Ludwig van

Symphony no.9 in D minor, op.125 'Choral'

Artists

Lisa della Casa
Hilde Rossel-Majdan
Waldemar Kmentt
Otto Edelmann
Wiener Singverein
Vienna Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Herbert von Karajan

About

From the late 1940s onwards, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony was one of the works with which Herbert von Karajan could impress international audiences before he succeeded Wilhelm Furtwängler as principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic in 1955.

In England, Italy, Japan and, above all, in Vienna, with both the Philharmonic and Symphony Orchestras he repeatedly took up the challenge of doing justice to the great demands of this complex work. The line-up of soloists in 1955 was the same as it had been in the spring of 1953, again taking place under the aegis of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde. With this tried and tested team he produced a reading of the work which, rereleased on CD, creates an impression of the greatest unity.

This was the last occasion on which the Vienna Symphony Orchestra played the Ninth Symphony under the conductor's direction, even though he continued to make guest appearances with them for almost another decade. The tremendous tension from one movement to the next points in many respects to a transitional phase in Karajan's career, a career in which various factors did not always conspire to such felicitous effect as they did in the Großer Saal of Vienna's Musikverein in the summer of 1955.

Live Recording 1955.

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