Special offer. Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 5
London Symphony Orchestra, Bernard Haitink
The Fifth Symphony represents the challenge of being the best-known work in the repertoire, but without being quirky Haitink presents it in a way that feels utterly fresh. The First Symphony...
Special offer. Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 5
London Symphony Orchestra, Bernard Haitink
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The Fifth Symphony represents the challenge of being the best-known work in the repertoire, but without being quirky Haitink presents it in a way that feels utterly fresh. The First Symphony...
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"Haitink unleashed the vigour of a man half his age. By this point the LSO's playing was blazing and the symphony ended like a musical depiction of the Day of Judgement" The Financial Times (concert review)
A high density DSD recording, live at the Barbican Centre on 24-30 April 2006Contents and tracklist
Work length31:22
I. Allegro con brio
Track length7:35
II. Andante con moto
Track length8:36
III. Scherzo. Allegro
Track length4:53
IV. Allegro
Track length10:18
Work length25:35
I. Adagio molto - Allegro con brio
Track length9:40
II. Andante cantabile con moto
Track length6:51
III. Menuetto & Trio. Allegro molto e vivace
Track length3:19
IV. Adagio - Allegro molto e vivace
Track length5:45
Awards and reviews
November 2006
The Fifth Symphony represents the challenge of being the best-known work in the repertoire, but without being quirky Haitink presents it in a way that feels utterly fresh. The First Symphony begins with a surprisingly sedate first movement for an Allegro coin brio, but phrasing is so enchantingly pointed that it is hard to object. The rest of the Symphony moves with that Haydnish combination of gracefulness and ebullience which is the work's hallmark.
