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Beethoven: Symphony No. 9

Live at Bayreuth Festspielhaus, Germany, 7/29/1951

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano), Elisabeth Höngen (alto), Hans Hopf (tenor), Otto Edelmann (bass), Festspielorchester der Bayreuther Festspiele, Wilhelm Furtwängler

Nothing else in the realms of recorded music is quite like it and I would urge you to share the experience...I’m not claiming that this performance will suit every mood or even every taste, but... — Gramophone Magazine, March 2022 More…

Release Date: 4th Feb 2022
Catalogue No: BIS9060
Label: BIS
Length: 82 minutes

Gramophone Magazine

March 2022

Reissue/Archive Issue of the Month
International Classical Music Awards

2023

Nominated - Historical
Building a Library

December 2022

Historic Recording

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Welcoming Announcements (Live at Bayreuth Festspielhaus, Germany, 7 / 29 / 1951)

Work length1:55

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trad.: Programme Announcement (Live at Bayreuth Festspielhaus, Germany, 7 / 29 / 1951)

Work length2:18

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

Work length53:29

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Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Elisabeth Höngen, Hans Hopf, Otto Edelmann
Bayreuth Festival Orchestra, Bayreuth Festival
Wilhelm Furtwängler

I. Allegro ma non troppo, un poco maestoso (Live at Bayreuth Festspielhaus, Germany, 7 / 29 / 1951)

Track length2:48

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II. Scherzo. Molto vivace - Presto (Live at Bayreuth Festspielhaus, Germany, 7 / 29 / 1951)

Track length18:57

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III. Adagio molto e cantabile (Live at Bayreuth Festspielhaus, Germany, 7 / 29 / 1951)

Track length12:28

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IV. Presto (Live at Bayreuth Festspielhaus, Germany, 7 / 29 / 1951)

Track length19:16

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Applause & Closing Remarks (Live at Bayreuth Festspielhaus, Germany, 7 / 29 / 1951)

Work length25:01

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Seventy years ago, on the 29th July 1951, Wilhelm Furtwängler conducted Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 at a concert marking the reopening of the Bayreuth Festival after seven years of silence following the Second World War. It was a momentous occasion, and the concert was broadcast by Bavarian Radio and trans¬mitted across the world, for instance by Swedish Radio. Using the analogue mono tape as digitized by Swedish Radio, the present disc reproduces the broadcast as it would have been heard by listeners in Sweden: we have chosen to not change anything, not to ‘brush up’ the sound, not to clean and shorten the pauses or omit audience noises within the music, but to keep the original as it was. In this way we hope to recreate the feeling of actually sitting in front of an old radio in 1951, listening to this important concert – a true historical document.

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March 2022

Nothing else in the realms of recorded music is quite like it and I would urge you to share the experience...I’m not claiming that this performance will suit every mood or even every taste, but if and when it does hit target it will leave you changed for ever.

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9

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