Special offer. Re-Sound Beethoven Volume 6: Symphony No. 8
Gottlieb Wallisch (piano)
Orchester Wiener Akademie, Martin Haselböck
The Allegretto scherzando [of the Eighth] is delectably light…and Haselbock finds surprising sweetness beneath its mechanical surface. I like, too, how he relishes the playful rhythmic punctuation...
Special offer. Re-Sound Beethoven Volume 6: Symphony No. 8
Gottlieb Wallisch (piano)
Orchester Wiener Akademie, Martin Haselböck
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The Allegretto scherzando [of the Eighth] is delectably light…and Haselbock finds surprising sweetness beneath its mechanical surface. I like, too, how he relishes the playful rhythmic punctuation...
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The Orchester Wiener Akademie and its conductor Martin Haselböck continue the Resound Beethoven series, performed on period instruments and scrupulously respecting the orchestral layout of 200 years ago. Volume 6 is devoted to the Eighth Symphony, premiered in 1814, and the Piano Concerto in D major op.61a, first performed in 1808. Beethoven made this piano arrangement of his Violin Concerto at the request of Clementi, who wished to publish it in London. The recording took place in the Austrian Academy of Sciences (Old University) in Vienna, where many important works by Beethoven received their first performance. The Austrian pianist Gottlieb Wallisch is the soloist in this rarely performed concerto.
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Awards Issue 2018
The Allegretto scherzando [of the Eighth] is delectably light…and Haselbock finds surprising sweetness beneath its mechanical surface. I like, too, how he relishes the playful rhythmic punctuation in the outer sections of the Minuet, while the Trio is ravishing.
