Beethoven: Symphony No.9

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In terms of sound and precision, the performance is meticulous, immaculate and even. That’s not to say that Honeck doesn't occasionally play a little loose…Everything about this performance has... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2021, 5 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Release Date: 12th Feb 2021
Catalogue No: FR-741
Label: Reference Recordings
Length: 62 minutes

Record Review

27th March 2021

Record of the Week
Grammy Awards

64th Awards (2022)

Nominee - Best Orchestral Performance
Grammy Awards

64th Awards (2022)

Nominee - Best Engineered Classical Album

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Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 'Choral'

Work length1:02:44

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Christina Landshamer (soprano), Jennifer Johnson Cano (mezzo-soprano), Werner Güra (tenor), Shenyang (bass-baritone)
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, The Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh
Manfred Honeck

I. Allegro ma non troppo, un poco maestoso (Live)

Track length14:30

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II. Scherzo. Molto vivace (Live)

Track length13:11

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III. Adagio molto e cantabile (Live)

Track length12:34

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IV. Finale. Presto (Live)

Track length22:29

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Celebrate Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 in a new and definitive interpretation from Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra! Recorded in superb audiophile sound, this release is the eleventh in the highly acclaimed Pittsburgh Live! series on the FRESH! imprint from Reference Recordings. This series has received GRAMMY® Nominations in 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019 and 2020. Its recording of Shostakovichs Symphony No.5 /Barber Adagio for Strings won the 2018 GRAMMY® Awards for Best Orchestral Performance and Best Engineered Classical Album. The album booklet includes Maestro Honeck's meticulous music notes, in which he gives us great insight into his unique interpretation as well as the history and musical structure of Beethovens most famous symphony.

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April 2021

In terms of sound and precision, the performance is meticulous, immaculate and even. That’s not to say that Honeck doesn't occasionally play a little loose…Everything about this performance has heft, from the orchestra to the soloists, with precision sculpting from Honeck verging on the maniacal, the Finale a joyous argy-bargy of conflicting forces, beset with moments of transcendent, expressive beauty.

May/June 2021

if the menace in the first two movements is palpable, so too is the loving comfort and almost inexpressible, all-embracing tenderness in the Adagio that follows.Honeck’s Ninth goes from super to superlative. And, in my opinion, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra goes from being the re-emergent success story of a great American orchestra to becoming one of the best orchestras on the world stage...a Beethoven Ninth for the ages.

May 2021

The string-playing is especially fine, as we might expect with a former Vienna Philharmonic player as music director and the ‘no vibrato’ heresy kept firmly at bay.

New York Times February 2021

What makes Honeck’s approach so stimulating in this most standard of repertoire is the sense that he has rethought each bar of the music.

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