Beethoven: Symphony No. 9

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

Vier Beethovens Symfonie nr. 9 in een nieuwe en definitieve interpretatie van Manfred Honeck en het Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra! Deze release, opgenomen met een fantastisch audiofiel geluid, is de elfde in het veelgeprezen Pittsburgh Live! serie over de VERSE! afdruk van Reference Recordings. Deze serie heeft GRAMMY®-nominaties ontvangen in 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019 en 2020. De opname van Sjostakovitsjs Symphony No.5 /Barber Adagio for Strings won de 2018 GRAMMY® Awards voor beste orkestuitvoering en Best Engineered Classical Album. Het albumboekje bevat de nauwgezette muzieknoten van Maestro Honeck, waarin hij ons een goed inzicht geeft in zijn unieke interpretatie, evenals de geschiedenis en muzikale structuur van de beroemdste symfonie van Beethoven.

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

"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."
BBC Music Magazine - April 2021 *****(performance) / ****(recording)

"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."
Gramophone Magazine -May 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."
Fanfare - May/June 2021