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[EuroArts 2050639] Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 4, 5, 6

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Channel: Naxos Music · 2010 · Music

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SWR-Sinfonieorchester
Michael Gielen

Michael Gielen  acclaimed for his vivid and uncompromisingly modern Beethoven performances  conducts the SWR-Sinfonieorchester. The exiled German conductor, born 1927, fuelled discussion about appropriate tempi in Beethoven interpretation when he started conducting Beethoven much faster than tradition in post-war Germany would have it. His style came closer to Arturo Toscanini and Richard Strauss legendary readings and was underpinned by musicological research. Above all, it made the great movements of Beethovens orchestral works so much more plausible and musically convincing in the view of critics, audiences and musicians alike. Michael Gielen was awarded with the Cannes Classical Lifetime Achievement Award 2002 at MIDEM in Cannes for his 50-year commitment to the music world. Recorded live with state-of-the art technology at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden and the Konzerthaus Freiburg between 1997 -2000, this Beethoven cycle presents the Nine Symphonies on separately available 3 DVDs.

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