Beethoven - Symphonies Nos. 2 & 6
London Symphony Orchestra, Bernard Haitink
Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2006, Editor's Choice
For anyone who wants first-rate stereo sound and a broadly traditional reading, it is hard to imagine more profoundly satisfying accounts than these. The playing of the LSO is nowadays quite...
Beethoven - Symphonies Nos. 2 & 6
London Symphony Orchestra, Bernard Haitink
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Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2006, Editor's Choice
For anyone who wants first-rate stereo sound and a broadly traditional reading, it is hard to imagine more profoundly satisfying accounts than these. The playing of the LSO is nowadays quite...
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"The challenge, then, was not only to make the Eroica sound ground-breaking again, but to ensure that the Second worked on its own terms. It did so convincingly, thanks to an interpretation from Haitink that looked beyond the Second's springy geniality and incorporated what brief elements of darkness he could find asa counterweight" ***** The Guardian (concert review)
A high density DSD recording, live at the Barbican Centre on 16-27 November 2005Contents and tracklist
I. Erwachen heiterer Empfindungen bei der Ankunft auf dem Lande. Allegro ma non troppo
Track length11:39
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Awards and reviews
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Gramophone MagazineAugust 2006Editor's Choice
July 2006
For anyone who wants first-rate stereo sound and a broadly traditional reading, it is hard to imagine more profoundly satisfying accounts than these. The playing of the LSO is nowadays quite magnificent, and they are fully justified in releasing their public performances
a fantastic performance - pure music-making by a great conductor and an orchestra that responds magnificently to his every request
There is a oneness of conception here which is superb - quite remarkable and ultimately wholly convincing. I'll let you into a secret: I have many recordings of the Beethoven symphonies in my collection but if anyone where to ask me which version of the Pastoral Iwould recommend, I would first of all direct them to this one
The Second Symphony springs out at us with a freshness and intense physicality...but also with a most sensitive attention to detail...the Pastoral is a delight, recapturing the composer's excitement as he arrives in his beloved countryside
