Beethoven Odyssey: Symphonies, Overtures, Concertos, Masses
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Label: Australian Eloquence
Cat No: ELQ4841728
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 12
Release Date: 15th January 2021
Contents
Works
Coriolan Overture, op.62Egmont Overture, op.84
Leonore Overture no.1, op.138
Leonore Overture no.2, op.72a
Leonore Overture no.3 in C major, op.72b
Mass in C major, op.86
Missa solemnis in D major, op.123
Piano Concertos nos 1-5 (complete)
Symphonies 1-9 (complete)
Symphony no.6 in F major, op.68 'Pastoral'
The Creatures of Prometheus, op.43
Artists
Stephen Kovacevich (piano)Arthur Grumiaux (violin)
Helen Donath (soprano)
Christiane Eda-Pierre (soprano)
Anna Tomowa-Sintow (soprano)
Trudeliese Schmidt (mezzo-soprano)
Patricia Payne (mezzo-soprano)
Klaus Konig (tenor)
Robert Tear (tenor)
Simon Estes (bass)
Kurt Moll (bass)
Robert Lloyd (bass)
Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks
London Symphony Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra
London Symphony Orchestra
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Concertgebouworkest
Conductor
Colin DavisWorks
Coriolan Overture, op.62Egmont Overture, op.84
Leonore Overture no.1, op.138
Leonore Overture no.2, op.72a
Leonore Overture no.3 in C major, op.72b
Mass in C major, op.86
Missa solemnis in D major, op.123
Piano Concertos nos 1-5 (complete)
Symphonies 1-9 (complete)
Symphony no.6 in F major, op.68 'Pastoral'
The Creatures of Prometheus, op.43
Artists
Stephen Kovacevich (piano)Arthur Grumiaux (violin)
Helen Donath (soprano)
Christiane Eda-Pierre (soprano)
Anna Tomowa-Sintow (soprano)
Trudeliese Schmidt (mezzo-soprano)
Patricia Payne (mezzo-soprano)
Klaus Konig (tenor)
Robert Tear (tenor)
Simon Estes (bass)
Kurt Moll (bass)
Robert Lloyd (bass)
Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks
London Symphony Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra
London Symphony Orchestra
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Concertgebouworkest
Conductor
Colin DavisAbout
When Colin Davis became its Chief Conductor in 1967, the BBC Symphony Orchestra was known as the house band for the BBC Proms, specialising in new music, and a radio orchestra first and foremost. With this series of Beethoven recordings the orchestra entered the mainstream commercial market and showed itself the equal of many more glamorous ensembles, not least thanks to the rich and rounded sonority cultivated by Davis.
A 1961 recording of the Seventh Symphony with Beecham’s Royal Philharmonic Orchestra had gathered much critical praise, but Davis’s 1976 remake with the LSO proved that the elemental fire of the early recording was no fluke. These are broadly sung and spacious performances, unexaggerated and yet alive with the strong accents and inner detail that marked out Davis’s readings of music from Mozart to Tippett.
The five piano concertos with Stephen Kovacevich quickly became a staple of the Philips catalogue, but the symphony recordings fell out of print: they have been compiled here for the first time, receiving new remasterings and first publications on CD, as are several of the overtures. There is an opportunity to compare the young firebrand Davis and his calmer self in middle age with two accounts of the Pastoral Symphony: with the LSO in 1962 (from the same sessions as a previously unpublished Second Leonore Overture – unpublished until now!) and with the BBCSO in July 1974. The First Symphony also receives its first appearance on a Universal Music label.
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