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Beethoven: The 9 Symphonies (Collectors Edition) [Box Set] | ![Beethoven: The 9 Symphonies (Collectors Edition) [Box Set]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51SYFC5A3EL._SL160_.jpg) | Creators: Kurt Moll, Ludwig van Beethoven, Leonard Bernstein, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Gwyneth Jones, René Kollo
Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Category: Music
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Rating:  14 reviews
Sales Rank: 3335
Format: Box set, Collector's Edition
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 5
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 5.9 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 000218502
UPC: 028947492429
EAN: 0028947492429
ASIN: B0001WGDX0
Release Date: May 11, 2004
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Symphony No. 1 in C major, Op. 21: 1. Adagio molto - Allegro con brio | | • | Symphony No. 1 in C major, Op. 21: 2. Andante cantabile con moto | | • | Symphony No. 1 in C major, Op. 21: 3. Menuetto. Allegro molto e vivace | | • | Symphony No. 1 in C major, Op. 21: 4. Adagio - Allegro molto e vivace | | • | Symphony No. 3 in E flat major ('Eroica'), Op. 55: 1. Allegro con brio | | • | Symphony No. 3 in E flat major ('Eroica'), Op. 55: 2. Marcia funebre. Adagio assai | | • | Symphony No. 3 in E flat major ('Eroica'), Op. 55: 3. Scherzo. Allegro vivace | | • | Symphony No. 3 in E flat major ('Eroica'), Op. 55: 4. Finale. Allegro molto |
Disc 2
| • | Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 36: 1. Adagio - Allegro con brio | | • | Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 36: 2. Larghetto | | • | Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 36: 3. Schrezo. Allegro | | • | Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 36: 4. Allegro molto | | • | Symphony No. 4 in B flat major, Op. 60: 1. Adagio - Allegro vivace | | • | Symphony No. 4 in B flat major, Op. 60: 2. Adagio | | • | Symphony No. 4 in B flat major, Op. 60: 3. Allegro vivace | | • | Symphony No. 4 in B flat major, Op. 60: 4. Allegro ma non troppo |
Disc 3
| • | Symphony No. 5 in C minor ('Fate'), Op. 67: 1. Allegro con brio | | • | Symphony No. 5 in C minor ('Fate'), Op. 67: 2. Andante con moto | | • | Symphony No. 5 in C minor ('Fate'), Op. 67: 3. Allegro | | • | Symphony No. 5 in C minor ('Fate'), Op. 67: 4. Allegro | | • | Symphony No. 6 in F major ('Pastoral'), Op. 68: 1. Erwachen heiterer Empfindungen bei der Ankunft auf dem Lande. Allegro ma non tropp | | • | Symphony No. 6 in F major ('Pastoral'), Op. 68: 2. Szene am Bach. Andante molto moto | | • | Symphony No. 6 in F major ('Pastoral'), Op. 68: 3. Lustiges Zusammensein der Landleute. Allegro | | • | Symphony No. 6 in F major ('Pastoral'), Op. 68: 4. Gewitter - Sturm. Allegro | | • | Symphony No. 6 in F major ('Pastoral'), Op. 68: 5. Hirtengesang. Frohe und dankbare Gefühle nach dem Sturm. Allegretto |
Disc 4
| • | Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92: 1. Poco sostenuto - Vivace | | • | Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92: 2. Allegretto | | • | Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92: 3. Presto | | • | Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92: 4. Allegro con brio | | • | Symphony No. 8 in F major, Op. 93: 1. Allegro vivace e con brio | | • | Symphony No. 8 in F major, Op. 93: 2. Allegretto scherzando | | • | Symphony No. 8 in F major, Op. 93: 3. Tempo di Menuetto | | • | Symphony No. 8 in F major, Op. 93: 4. Allegro vivace |
Disc 5
| • | Symphony No. 9 in D minor ('Choral'), Op. 125: 1. Allegro ma non troppo, un poco maestoso | | • | Symphony No. 9 in D minor ('Choral'), Op. 125: 2. Molto vivace | | • | Symphony No. 9 in D minor ('Choral'), Op. 125: 3. Adagio molto e cantabile | | • | Symphony No. 9 in D minor ('Choral'), Op. 125: 4. Presto | | • | Symphony No. 9 in D minor ('Choral'), Op. 125: Presto - "O Freunde, nicht diese Töne!". Allegro assai (Final Chorus from Schiller's " |
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 An Excellent Exploration of Beethoven by Bernstein and the VPO March 1, 2009
Cosmic Muser (Seattle, WA USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have been listening to Beethoven's music for many years, and have recordings of Beethoven by von Karajan, Abbado, Rattle, Kleiber, Bernstein and Levine to name a few. I also had the opportunity to see Claudio Abbado and the Berlin Philharmonic perform the Eroica symphony live several years ago in Orange County, California. Needless to say that was the definitive performance for me. I only recently bought this boxed set of Bernstein's symphony cycle from Vienna in the late 70's. I was pleasantly surprised to realize how much I grew to love this set very quickly. It also has a good deal of historical significance as well, considering Bernstein was a Jewish American conducting music by the greatest German composer who ever lived in Vienna, only 30 years after World War II. It is astonishing to hear how the orchestra is so obviously and completely under Bernstein's command throughout these symphonies. It is a wonderful collaboration.
Berstein's approach overall is very broad, with a lot more histrionic tempo changes and dynamic extremes than is customary for Beethoven performances, but it is utterly captivating as far as I'm concerned. Only the performance of the 5th taxes the patience, with its lugubrious pacing in the first movement.
I think the 3rd, 7th and 9th are particularly good performances. Under Bernstein, the 9th becomes a leisurely yet powerful journey through this most amazing of symphonies. The soloists in the finale make an absolutely heavenly quartet, even if Kollo is a bit taxed at times. Gwyneth Jones and Kurt Moll both shine, with her creamy high notes and his sepulchral heft the finale becomes more operatic than ever before, and the final quartet before the eruptive finale is performed slowly and intensely so that the listener can follow every exquisite note from each singer-for me this is one of the most immaculate moments I have ever experienced in all my years of listening to Beethoven recordings. It seems to last for an eternity and sounds as if one is ascending into heaven itself. The concluding eruption is taken very fast and builds to a very emotional and grandiose conclusion.
All in all, especially for the price, this set is well worth having. It is a different approach to Beethoven that yields many rewards both in terms of emotional accessibility and in the details one notices in the music due to the broader tempi. The recording quality is generally excellent. It cannot match the smooth, warm glow of the newer digital recordings, but there is plenty of detail, presence and warmth to satisfy most listeners, and the acoustics of the Musikverein provides sufficient weight to the bass and enough air for the music to breath. If you like Beethoven, this is highly recommended to help rediscover his music from a new perspective. For Bernstein fans, it's a no-brainer.
 There is some persistent September 21, 2008
K. MIURA (Japan)
0 out of 13 found this review helpful
These are Beethoven's 9 Symphonies conducted by Bernstein with Vpo (1977-79 years). There is some persistent. The persistence might be clearly understood, if you compare these with his works of Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 1-9; Overtures; Violin Concerto (Limited Edition) with NYP (1961-64 years). I think that the persistence is caused by Bernstein's decline, though the decline is helped in Vienna Phil's good performance and the good performance of the excellent song hand in ninth symphony. This complete volume might depend on the listener's preference.
Broad shoulders July 22, 2008
Chyron (Antwerp, Flanders, Europe)
2 out of 8 found this review helpful
These Bernstein/WPO performances and DG recordings are good of course, how could they be bad. Even so, this symphonic cycle doens't make it into the top ten of Beethoven's symphonies and it should certainly not be anyone's first or only choice.
Fans of Bernstein will probably give it five ***** stars before or even without a hearing and it is a very attractively priced for which I'm grateful.
Personnaly, I prefer a conductor who tries to the best of his ability to play the composer's music and less the conductor's interpretation of the same.
Still, Beethoven has broad shoulders and there is place on them for many a conductor with their own views. We are happily spoilt for choice.
Surprisingly tame Beethoven from a great conductor July 21, 2007
Santa Fe listener
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
The tameness of this Beethoven cycle from Bernstein and the Vienna Phil. was deliberate, I suspect. The conductor had already made a massive-sounding cycle in New York with the Philharmonic, and he apparently wanted to hear these works slimmed down, fleet, and classically inclined in Vienna. Even understanding the rationale, there are moments when the readings come close to being either tepid or ordinary. The VPO sounds lovely, and DG has improved on the original thin sonics from the LP era. But I can't square these cautious performances with the free-wheeling and inspired Bernstein I love. If you play any single movement side by side with, say, Riccardo Muti's middle-of-the-raod cycle from Philadelphia on a bargain EMI line, it's hard to tell where Muti ends and Bernstein begins. (Joining Muti and Bernstein, another firebrand conductor, Solti, also tended toward tameness when it came to Beethoven.)
I see that the reviewers here are sharply divided between champsions and naysayers. I'm not completey disappointed. The smaller, more graceful symphonies (#1, #2, #4, #8) are the best in the cycle, largely thanks to the orchestra's elegant execution. Of the heroic symphonies, the Fifth is dull, the Eroica and Seventh are better but by no means inspired, and the Ninth comes the closest to making one sit up and take notice. LB made a specialty of this work, but his three official versions don't really capture the magic. This one comes closest, and I much prefer it to the emotional wallow that LB indulged in with his famous "Ode to Freedom" performance at the Berlin Wall after it fell in 1989.
As for the reviewers here who heap superlatives on this set, I can't come close to agreeing, and I am a Bernstein fan par excellence.
Just Super June 9, 2007
sharon (manassas, va)
2 out of 8 found this review helpful
This a great collection, and Bernstein displays all his usual expressiveness. I'm sorry, Eroica is not at all boring. It is fantastic!
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