As most music lovers know, this year we are celebrating the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth. And certainly the market will be filled with amazing offerings of recorded performances.
Today we have for you a new recording of:
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 & Choral Fantasy
Christiana Karg (soprano), Sophie Harmsen (mezzo), Werner Güra (tenor), Florian Boesch (baritone), Kristian Bezuidenhout (fortepiano)
Freiburger Barockorchester, Zürcher Sing-Akademie, Pablo Heras-Casado.
The Sunday Times wrote about this recording that: “the intricate, incisive rhythms, the clarity that makes Beethoven’s revolutionary scoring endlessly startling (thrillingly prominent horns and bassoons), and the inspired soloists and chorus…”
Here is the 4th movement of the 9th symphony, with the part that you surely know: