02-16-2013 Post does not mapped to Knowledge Tree Dominic Montreal, Canada Posts 69 Joined on 08-23-2006 Post #: 1 Post ID: 19010 Reply to: 19010 A fresh take on 9th by the OSM fiogf49gjkf0d The 4th movement of Beethoven's was playing on the radio the other day and my ears perked up. I almost didn't recognize it at all. I was quite surprised to find out that it was performed by my humble local Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal and the characterful Kent Nagano waving the stick. I did a little shuffling around and found out that it was recorded pretty recently and is packaged as the whole symphony with a performance of the poem "where have you gone my revolutionary friend?" by Yann Martel by way of introduction which is repeated after the finale in the original french. http://www.analekta.com/en/album/?orchestre-symphonique-de-montreal-beethoven-9th-symphony-human-misery-human-love.1674.html The caveat is that so far i've only properly listened to the 4th movement. What i did hear was rather unusual. Most i've heard, from Furtwangler to Szell treat the finale as a a very constant piece, whole unto itself but the variation from passage to passage in this version is striking to the extent that you might wonder what you're listening to. There's a hymn like quality to this interpretation that you might find hinted at in other versions. No idea how the CD sounds

02-21-2013 Post does not mapped to Knowledge Tree Goetz Hamburg/GER and Gdansk/PL Posts 11 Joined on 01-14-2013 Post #: 2 Post ID: 19031 Reply to: 19010 The deep canadian forests fiogf49gjkf0d Thank you, Dominic for this new (to me) link, music source and even radio ! Out of the deep canadian forest we received in the last 50 years some very nice music performances for our blue planet !   One of my favourite conductors and great Bruckner performer, Guenter Wandt, might have had some reservation onto a too much deferred interpretation of the master's work....