Title : Beethoven — Symphony No. 9 in D minor op. 125
Artist : Claudio Abbado (cond),
Berliner Philharmoniker
Cat No :LP43079
Label : DG
Format : 2LP
Barcode : 8808678160796
● From the original masters of Universal Music
● Audiophile analogue mastering by Rainer Maillard at Emil Berliner Studios.
● 180g audiophile virgin vinyl pressed by Pallas GmbH in Germany
● First time ever on vinyl records
RECORDING INFORMATION
Recordings: Berlin, Philharmonie,Großer Saal, 4/2000
Produced by Christopher Alder
Tonmeister (Balance Engineer): Klaus Hiemann
Recording Engineers: Jürgen Bulgrin, Reinhard Lagemann
Editing: Dagmar Birwe
Recorded, edited and mastered by Emil Berliner Studios
Abbado’s new (Beethoven Symphony) cycle is certainly different, quicker, lighter-toned, more ‘Italianate’ - the Ninth Symphony radically so... By concentrating on pace, logic and transparent texturing Abbado effectively draws Beethoven into that distinguished circle of musical obsessives whose music he has always conducted as to the manner born. Ab best, the new technology produces sound of astonishing transparency, I have never heard the finale of the Ninth Sym-phony so astutely and lucidly performed and recorded, the inner part-writing, vocal and choral, crystal-clear... it is the studio-made Fourth and the ‘live’ Ninth which currently stand clear in my memory. – Gramophone