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Edited 30 September 2024.
The work is Beethoven Symphony 4.
I'll update with details of the reviewer when they appear.
Here's the link to the Presto listing: nearly 500!!
For Alison's peace of mind, there HAS been a BBC MM release:
Volume 12, Number 9, BBC Philharmonic, Gianandrea Noseda.
Recorded in Studio 7, New Broadcasting House, Manchester, on 21 May 2003.
Here's the updated website blurb.
1500
Building a Library
Richard Wigmore selects his favourite version of Beethoven's Symphony No. 4 in B♭ major, Op. 60.
By 1806 Beethoven was on a roll. He'd got the Razumovsky Quartets and the Violin Concerto under his belt and this symphony is confident and bouncing with life. It's sometimes seen as being overshadowed by the mighty symphonies Beethoven wrote on either side of it. Robert Schumann dismissively called the Fourth Symphony "a slender Greek maiden between two Norse giants". But Hector Berlioz was nearer the mark when he said that the slow movement was the work of the Archangel Michael, and not that of a human.
Recommended version
Kammerakademie Potsdam
Antonello Manacorda (conductor)
Sony 19658849982
Edited 30 September 2024.
The work is Beethoven Symphony 4.
I'll update with details of the reviewer when they appear.
Here's the link to the Presto listing: nearly 500!!
For Alison's peace of mind, there HAS been a BBC MM release:
Volume 12, Number 9, BBC Philharmonic, Gianandrea Noseda.
Recorded in Studio 7, New Broadcasting House, Manchester, on 21 May 2003.
Here's the updated website blurb.
1500
Building a Library
Richard Wigmore selects his favourite version of Beethoven's Symphony No. 4 in B♭ major, Op. 60.
By 1806 Beethoven was on a roll. He'd got the Razumovsky Quartets and the Violin Concerto under his belt and this symphony is confident and bouncing with life. It's sometimes seen as being overshadowed by the mighty symphonies Beethoven wrote on either side of it. Robert Schumann dismissively called the Fourth Symphony "a slender Greek maiden between two Norse giants". But Hector Berlioz was nearer the mark when he said that the slow movement was the work of the Archangel Michael, and not that of a human.
Recommended version
Kammerakademie Potsdam
Antonello Manacorda (conductor)
Sony 19658849982
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