Symphonies: A Beethove... - Gabor Takacs-n Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra - Audio CD (Arrives in 50 days)

Over a thirteen-year period (2009–2022), Gábor Takács-Nagy and the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra embarked on a spiritual journey through the nine symphonies of Beethoven. The resultant cycle of recordings captures the ensemble's liberated and transformative account of these masterworks, approaching each opus with a sense of spontaneity, insight, and joy. We hear neither a large-scale orchestral sound nor the hurried tempi and reduced sound of historical performance practice. Here we experience a collective search for what Beethoven was really about: the quest for truth and humanity. Let's call it "the birth of symphony out of the spirit of the string quartet": Hungarian conductor Gábor Takács-Nagy, founder, and namesake of the legendary Takács Quartet, takes a chamber music approach. For 17 years he regularly played the complete Beethoven string quartets on the world's stages as first violinist, before turning to the symphonies as conductor, with the essence of Beethoven's music is in his blood.

CD1 Beethoven: Symphonies 1 & 3 CD2 Beethoven: Symphonies 2 & 4 CD3 Beethoven: Symphonies 5 & 6 CD4 Beethoven: Symphonies 7 & 8 CD5 Beethoven: Symphony no. 9

Label: Deutsche Grammophon | Origin: Holland

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