Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 1-9
Rebecca Nash (soprano), Wilke te Brummelstroete (mezzo-soprano), Marcel Beekman (tenor) & Michael Tews (bass)
Laurens Collegium & Laurens Cantorij, Orchestra of the 18th Century, Frans Brüggen
Awards:
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Gramophone Awards, 2013, Finalist - Orchestral
Brüggen's message, interpreted from uncorrupted texts, gets through, every repeat except one (in the third movement of the Seventh) observed. But he reserves judgement about Beethoven's metronome...
Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 1-9
Rebecca Nash (soprano), Wilke te Brummelstroete (mezzo-soprano), Marcel Beekman (tenor) & Michael Tews (bass)
Laurens Collegium & Laurens Cantorij, Orchestra of the 18th Century, Frans Brüggen
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Awards:
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Gramophone Awards, 2013, Finalist - Orchestral
Brüggen's message, interpreted from uncorrupted texts, gets through, every repeat except one (in the third movement of the Seventh) observed. But he reserves judgement about Beethoven's metronome...
About
Frans Brüggen first turned his attention to the music of Beethoven’s Nine Symphonies in the 1980s, using period instruments. Now, his quest undimmed, he returns to the glories of Beethoven’s orchestral music for a new cycle being issued in a sumptuous hybrid SACD box set on Glossa. Likewise undimmed is the rapport he shares with his orchestra for one of classical music’s greatest challenges by way of concert performances: Brüggen has long distanced himself from studio recordings.
Contents and tracklist
- Wilke te Brummelstroete (mezzo-soprano), Michael Tews (bass), Rebecca Nash (soprano), Marcel Beekman (tenor)
- Laurens Collegium, Orchestra of the 18th Century, Laurens Cantorij
- Frans Brüggen
Awards and reviews
January 2013
Brüggen's message, interpreted from uncorrupted texts, gets through, every repeat except one (in the third movement of the Seventh) observed. But he reserves judgement about Beethoven's metronome markings...Brüggen strips (the Ninth) of the overbearing bombast encrusted across generations...This is Brüggen's voyage to the vortex of Beethoven's last symphony. Go with him for a rare emotional encounter.
10th March 2013
What makes these new readings so rewarding is the depth and breadth of his conception of Beethoven’s sound world, combined with the clarity of period instruments. Older conductors achieved this with modern instruments, but Brüggen’s accounts of the purely orchestral symphonies have uncommon integrity.
18th October 2012
the O18C have the same exhilarating zeal now as they did when they made their previous set of Beethoven recordings for Philips in the early 1990s...Brüggen isn't one for attention-seeking effects or eccentricities, but his performances bristle with ideas, making them confrontational in the best sense.
Classical Music 17th November 2012
Bruggen’s Beethoven with his crack European ensemble is again a breath of fresh air … every bar crackles with energy and delight. Excellent recorded sound, capturing a natural concert hall perspective.
