Beethoven - The Symphonies - Chailly

This is a special day for the blog: it is 6 months old, and this is my 1000th post!

The number of visitors per day has been increasing gradually: in the last week has exceeded 3,500 visitors daily and 8,000 pageviews per day. I'm having an average of 250 downloads per CD.

These figures make me think that the objectives of my blog are being fulfilled: the promotion of classical music.

On this occasion I must thank all visitors and friends who have left comments and the encouragement they give me.

Enjoy! Happy listening!

Este es un dia especial para el blog: hace 6 meses de edad, y este es mi post número 1000!

El número de visitantes por día ha ido aumentando poco a poco: en la última semana ha superado los 3.500 visitantes diarios y 8.000 páginas vistas por día. Estoy teniendo una media de 250 descargas por CD.

Estas cifras me hacen pensar que los objetivos de mi blog se están cumpliendo: la promoción de la música clásica.

En esta ocasión tengo que agradecer a todos los visitantes y amigos que han dejado comentarios y el aliento que me dan.

Disfrute! Feliz audición!

"A set like this reveals tellingly the beneficial side of the period-performance movement. There are things that Riccardo Chailly does that likely never would have occurred to him, especially with this orchestra, absent current research into early 19th-century sonority and practice, particularly regarding tempo. (...) The one huge advantage that Chailly enjoys over any period-instrument performance, however, is the playing of Leipzig’s Gewandhaus Orchestra. Obviously, these folks know their Beethoven, but more to the point, it’s ludicrous in the face of playing of this quality to suggest that any period-performance group, using modern copies of old instruments, can approach the ensemble quality on display here. (...) More to the point, this telling admixture of traditional and novel gives Beethoven’s music a range of expression and bigness of vision that period-performance purists can’t hope to match. (...) This is great Beethoven. (...)"

David Hurwitz in Classics Today

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827):
CD1
Symphony No.1 in C major, op.21
Overture "Die Geschöpfe des Prometheus", op.43
Symphony No.2 in D major, op.36
Overture "Leonore" No.3, op.72b

CD2
Symphony No.3 in E flat major, op.55
Overture "Fidelio", op.72
Symphony No.4 in B flat major, op.60

CD3
Overture "Coriolan", op.62
Symphony No.5 in C minor, op.67
Symphony No.6 in F major, op.68 "Pastoral"

CD4
Overture "Egmont", op.84
Symphony No.7 in A major, op.92
Overture "Die Ruinen von Athen", op.113
Symphony No.8 in F major, op.93

CD5
Overture "Zu Namesfeier", op.115
Overture "König Stephan", op.117
Symphony No.9 in D major, op.125

Katerina Beranova - soprano
Lilli Paasikivi - mezzo-soprano
Robert Dean Smith - tenor
Hanno Müller-Brachmann - bass-baritone
GewandhausChor
GewandhausKinderchor
MDR Rundfunkchor
Gewandhausorchester
Riccardo Chailly - conductor

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