Beethoven's Ninth (what recordings do you have)

[Harvey]

This is pretty obsessive, but this is what I amassed over the last few years.
Favorite is Fricsay 1958. There are 4 or 5 listed that I haven't really listened to yet.

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Bernstein 1989 (Ode to Freedom)
Blomstedt 1980
Blomstedt 1985
Drahos 1996
Duvier 1990
Fricsay 1958
Gardiner 1994
Hanoncourt 1991
Herreweghe 1998
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Karajan 1963 (with Gundula Janowitz)
Karajan 1977
Karajan 1984
Klemperer 1956
Kofman 2001
Leinsdorf 1969
Maag 1994
Maazel 1978
Masur 1974
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Monteux 1962
Munch 1958
Norrington 1987
Reiner 1961
Sanz Torre 2006
Solti 1986
Stokowski 1934
Szell 1961
Toscanini 1952
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Walter 1959
Wand 1986
Weingartner 1935
Zander 1991
Zinman 1994
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4th Movement Only: Abbado 1995 and Leppard 1994

[AeolianHarp]

I think this is mine..I am a you tube filcher hehe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mz8P8D8MdNU

[Chris]

Szell 1961 and Zinman 1994. I also have Scherbakov and Katsaris playing the Liszt transcription.

[Peter]

This is pretty obsessive, but this is what I amassed over the last few years.
Favorite is Fricsay 1958. There are 4 or 5 listed that I haven't really listened to yet.

I have about 6 versions which are on your list and like you my favourite is Fricsay. This was one of the first classical LPs I bought when I was about 13, but in those days I didn't look after my collection very well (typical messy teenager I'm afraid!), so I was delighted when you told me it was available on cd. I ordered it and it arrived last week and was just as I remembered it, superb and the best of my 9ths!

[hal9000]

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Bernstein 1989 (Ode to Freedom)
Gardiner 1994
Hanoncourt 1991
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Karajan 1963 (with Gundula Janowitz)
Klemperer 1956
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Norrington 1987
Solti 1986
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These +

Mackerras (Liverpool PO)
Barenboim (Staatskapelle Berlin)
Bohm
Abbado (BPO and VPO)
Furtwangler
Jarvi
Vanska

[Enrique]

I have about 6 versions which are on your list and like you my favourite is Fricsay. This was one of the first classical LPs I bought when I was about 13, but in those days I didn't look after my collection very well (typical messy teenager I'm afraid!), so I was delighted when you told me it was available on cd. I ordered it and it arrived last week and was just as I remembered it, superb and the best of my 9ths!

Was that a stereo LP?

[Michael]

If anyone had asked me, I would have said offhand that I have about six or seven. But when I went to check, I found I had almost twice that number:

Busch (1950)
Furtwangler
Karajan 1963
Karajan 1984
Kurt Masur
Karl Bohm
Ernest Ansermet
Eugene Ormandy
George Szell
Gunter Wand
Leonard Bernstein
Jos van Immerseel
Eugen Duvier

(And I'm sure I have a few more lurking around somewhere)

[Harvey]

Nice sets of Ninths Hal9000 and Michael!

The Ninth was my first ever classical vocal work. I bought my first Ninth on vinyl about 34 years ago. It was the only classical vocal work I would listen to until I learned of Handel's Messiah a few years later. No further vocal works until just a couple years ago.

My vinyl Ninth was Fricsay but apparently a budget edition because it split the third movement over both sides of the disc. The better edition came with two discs and is represented by the CD edition.

[Peter]

Was that a stereo LP?

Yes and it was the two LP set mentioned below by Harvey - I thoroughly recommend getting this on cd.

[Harvey]

This is the one to get:



Here is my old one-disc vinyl edition:

[Harvey]

Well I just got my 33rd Ninth! Thanks to Rocco going to the library used book sale and finding a copy of Mehta 1983 Beethoven Ninth in great condition for $2 USD.

[AeolianHarp]

How nice Harvey!

OMG The Ninth is going to be on my town's concert hall next March!!! I am going to see it.....

[Harvey]

How nice Harvey!

OMG The Ninth is going to be on my town's concert hall next March!!! I am going to see it.....

Yes you very well must go!

[AeolianHarp]

I have got 3 CDS of the Ninth:

Von Karajan conducting the Berliner Philharmoniker ( bought today for 50p!)

Nicolaus Esterhazy Sinfonia, 1997

Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto, Peter Maag, conductor, 1994 ( bought today for 50p!)


I am listening to the Karajan one right now- seems to be played much more slowly than I have heard on other recordings. Well, it is noticeable on the second movement!

[AeolianHarp]

This is the one to get:



Here is my old one-disc vinyl edition:

I ordered this from ebay: