Authentic Instrument mp3s - Symphony no.9 Op.125

[Rod]

Originally posted by Sorrano:
I do have this set as well and will have to listen again to the 9th. Earlier I heard a couple of Beethoven Dances performed on period instruments and was impressed very favorably with the timbre of the brass and percussion instruments! Unfortunately I do not know which orchestra or conductor.

Yes the advantages the more 'primitive' instruments offer are quite clear upon hearing, even if they require more work/maintenance from the performers, this is why you hardly get any Baroque recordings using modern instruments any more. You are lucky to have heard the dances, I have only a few tracks of those on period instruments.

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"If I were but of noble birth..." - Rod Corkin

[Chaszz]

Originally posted by Rod:
Fair enough, however I suspect I would regard this same performance by F in a wholely different light to yourself if I'd heard it.

That goes without saying!

[Chaszz]

I've just listened to this track for the 3rd time, and must remark that it seems devoid of the deeper meanings which Furtwangler discovers. It seems surface-oriented and somewhat mechanical to me. When it reaches its conclusion, I feel strangely unsatisfied, as if the great ocean I am used to bathing in has shrunk to the size of a large swimming pool. I feel the younger members of this forum should not remain completely unaware of the great achievements of the conductors of the pre-original-instruments era, which are currently out of favor here and elsewhere. I think to some extent the baby has been thrown out with the bathwater.

[Rod]

Originally posted by Chaszz:
I've just listened to this track for the 3rd time, and must remark that it seems devoid of the deeper meanings which Furtwangler discovers. It seems surface-oriented and somewhat mechanical to me. When it reaches its conclusion, I feel strangely unsatisfied, as if the great ocean I am used to bathing in has shrunk to the size of a large swimming pool. I feel the younger members of this forum should not remain completely unaware of the great achievements of the conductors of the pre-original-instruments era, which are currently out of favor here and elsewhere. I think to some extent the baby has been thrown out with the bathwater.

Perhaps you would feel different if you heard the CD on your hifi and not this lo-res music file on your computer, I don't know. My first experiences of the 9th were all tired Mahleresque efforts, I've had enough of that by now. If I want Beethoven I want Beethoven, not some late-Romantic arrangement.


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"If I were but of noble birth..." - Rod Corkin