BaL 12.10.24 - Beethoven: Symphony 4

[Pulcinella]

No details given yet for this week.

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!!

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/works/63225--beethoven-symphony-no-4-in-b-flat-major-op-60/browse

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.

[Pulcinella]

News just in:

Thank you for bringing this to our attention! It seems that something has slipped through the net so I will make sure it’s sorted as soon as possible.
The Building a Library work for Saturday 12^th is Beethoven’s Symphony no.4!

Kind regards,

Sarah

Production Co-ordinator
BBC Radio 3

[Petrushka]

My favourite Beethoven 4, for many years now, has been Karajan's 1962 recording on DG.

[silvestrione]

My favourite Beethoven 4, for many years now, has been Karajan's 1962 recording on DG.

Yes, an absolute classic IMHO. The touch is just right all through, the orchestral sound seems ideal, and no-one, but no-one, equals it in the middle two movements in particular (oh that rolling rhythmn in the slow movement, and the clarinet!). Perfect balance of the Apollonian and the Dionysian, as i think Richard Osborne might have said on my original LP sleeve.
Perhaps a touch more audibility in the bassoon here and there, and the splendid first movement introduction may have more mystery in it in the Jochum version.