Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 [Hybrid SACD]

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 [Hybrid SACD]

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 [Hybrid SACD]
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Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven
Conductor: Osmo Vänskä
Conductor: Osmo Vanska
Orchestra: Minnesota Orchestra
Performer: Katarina Karnéus
Performer: Helena Juntunen
Performer: Daniel Norman
Edition: Music CD
Format: Hybrid SACD - DSD, Import
CD Release Date: 2006-10-24
Music Label: Bis
Soundtracks:
  1. Symphony No. 9 in D minor ('Choral'), Op. 125: I. Allegro ma non troppo e un poco maestoso
  2. Symphony No. 9 in D minor ('Choral'), Op. 125: II. Molto vivace - Presto
  3. Symphony No. 9 in D minor ('Choral'), Op. 125: III. Adagio molto e cantabile - Andante cantabile
  4. Symphony No. 9 in D minor ('Choral'), Op. 125: IV. Presto - Allegro assai - Presto (recitativo: 'O Freunde, nicht diese Töne!') - All

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Free Music Review: Fine new Choral - up to the high standards of this cycle
Hit: 5 Stars


A powerfully played and recorded account, with a similar interpretative approach to the earlier SACDs in the series. The total timing is under 66 minutes, the Adagio comes in at 13'26, which should give some indication that this isn't a performance that will necessarily appeal to devotees of, say, Furtwangler's 1954 Lucerne Festival performance with the Philharmonia.

I say 'necessarily' as I like both performances very much, despite the differences. The first movement and scherzo here are urgently played with great impetus, not quite with the same emphasis on grandeur as one might find with older fine accounts from Karajan, Fricsay and Boehm. The phrasing is less smooth (string playing often with more aggression than normal), the tempi quicker but the whole seems to relate the work firmly with the other symphonies rather than treating it as a separate interpretative entity to be blasted out in a totally different way - here it all sounds wholly Beethovenian.

Such is the detail of the excellent recording (I listened in stereo via a Stax earspeaker system; the multichannel layer is 5.0) that instrumental lines appear clearer than in any other recording I know, though I listened at a slightly higher than normal level. The acoustic is perfect as well and this must be well up to the standards of this cycle and BIS in general.

The slow movement is not the quickest recorded by a long way and the movement's spirit (as we would normally understand it) is maintained - but occasionally one wonders if one is listening to an Andante rather than an Adagio. Still I felt this was true to the composer's intentions and sounds even more authentic than some other HIP versions.

The Finale opens superbly with great intensity and sweep, and there's a great bass recitative - though I felt the tenor soloist was slightly small scale. Similarly after a fine 'fife and drums' episode the 'pursuit' orchestral tutti which follows didn't quite take off as I thought (and hoped) it would. Other performances like Karajan in 1961 really do make the spine tingle here. But these are the only flaws as the Minnesota Chorale sing superbly as do the female soloists.

Apart from the slight caveats about the finale I recommend this, even if you're not collecting Vanska's cycle - it probably won't replace your favourite Choral Symphony recording but it does offer something genuinely new and convincing in Beethoven interpretation - which these days is not easy.


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