Can someone recommend the best 'audiophile' grade recording of this? I have the Harencourt (sp?), CD, but I just feel that it is lacking and...muddy..
I have the ability to do DVD-Audio if there is any good recordings of it, however I will only be using this in stereo so multichannel is not an issue.
Seid umschlungen, Millionen!
Diesen Kuss der ganzen Welt!
I have the ability to do DVD-Audio if there is any good recordings of it, however I will only be using this in stereo so multichannel is not an issue.
Seid umschlungen, Millionen!
Diesen Kuss der ganzen Welt!
Solti on Decca. Can't comment on whether it's the best recording available, but it's a superb performance.
IIRC he did more than one recording of the 9th.,
Regards
Charles
Shouldn't you guys be having this discussion here?
Covers that are arguably better than the originals:
Covers that are arguably better than the originals:
pinkmouse said:Shouldn't you guys be having this discussion here?
Covers that are arguably better than the originals:
Only if you've got a recording with Beethoven conducting that's worse than the covers.
pinkmouse said:Shouldn't you guys be having this discussion here?
Covers that are arguably better than the originals:
Beethoven isn't music, it's transcendence over mortal existence.
jackinnj said:
Beethoven isn't music, it's transcendence over mortal existence.
Right man!
jackinnj said:
Beethoven isn't music, it's transcendence over mortal existence.
How romantic!
LvB S#9: E.Kleiber
Decca LXT 2725 and 2726 from the early 50ies:
Erich Kleiber conducting the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Hilde Gueden (soprano)
Sieglinde Wagner (contralto)
Anton Dermota (tenor)
Ludwig Weber (bass)
sonics are remarkable albeit not as breathtakingly realistic as with the famous Symphony #3 and #5 , E.Kleiber cond. Concertgebouw Orch, Amsterdam. The singers are German native speakers (AISB)
And as we are on it, the E.Kleiber performance of LvB Symph.#6 (Pastoral), LPO, also early 50ies, is the only performance sounding like Beethoven to my ears ... and not like some romantic misunderstanding.
Decca LXT 2725 and 2726 from the early 50ies:
Erich Kleiber conducting the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Hilde Gueden (soprano)
Sieglinde Wagner (contralto)
Anton Dermota (tenor)
Ludwig Weber (bass)
sonics are remarkable albeit not as breathtakingly realistic as with the famous Symphony #3 and #5 , E.Kleiber cond. Concertgebouw Orch, Amsterdam. The singers are German native speakers (AISB)
And as we are on it, the E.Kleiber performance of LvB Symph.#6 (Pastoral), LPO, also early 50ies, is the only performance sounding like Beethoven to my ears ... and not like some romantic misunderstanding.
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