Beethoven - Symphony No.9

• Symphonie No. 9 d-moll op. 125
• SIDE 1. Allegro ma non troppo e un poco maestoso
• SIDE 2. Molto vivace - Presto
• SIDE 3. Adagio molto e cantabile - Andante moderato
• SIDE 4. Presto - Allegro assai
• Presto - »O Freunde, nicht diese Töne!« -
• Allegro assai - Allegro assai vivace (alla Marcia) -
• Andante maestoso - Adagio ma non troppo ma divoto -
• Allegro energico e sempre ben marcato -
• Allegro ma non tanto - Presto - Maestoso - Prestissimo
• (Schlusschor über Schillers Ode »Ari die Freude«)

Title : Beethoven — Symphony No. 9 in D minor op. 125

Artist : Claudio Abbado (cond),

Berliner Philharmoniker

Cat No :LP43079

Label : DG

Format : 2LP

Barcode : 8808678160796

● From the original masters of Universal Music

● Audiophile analogue mastering by Rainer Maillard at Emil Berliner Studios.

● 180g audiophile virgin vinyl pressed by Pallas GmbH in Germany

● First time ever on vinyl records

RECORDING INFORMATION

Recordings: Berlin, Philharmonie,Großer Saal, 4/2000

Produced by Christopher Alder

Tonmeister (Balance Engineer): Klaus Hiemann

Recording Engineers: Jürgen Bulgrin, Reinhard Lagemann

Editing: Dagmar Birwe

Recorded, edited and mastered by Emil Berliner Studios

Abbado’s new (Beethoven Symphony) cycle is certainly different, quicker, lighter-toned, more ‘Italianate’ - the Ninth Symphony radically so...

By concentrating on pace, logic and transparent texturing Abbado effectively draws Beethoven into that distinguished circle of musical obsessives whose music he has always conducted as to the manner born.

Ab best, the new technology produces sound of astonishing transparency, I have never heard the finale of the Ninth Sym-phony so astutely and lucidly performed and recorded,

the inner part-writing, vocal and choral, crystal-clear... it is the studio-made Fourth and the ‘live’ Ninth which currently stand clear in my memory. – Gramophone