“...a very impressive collection, more detailed than other editions...”
(Podium Notes, Summer 2001)
“The number of corrected errors and scholarly opinions now makes it possible to perform these works and meet the most exacting standards.”
(Podium Notes, Winter 2000)
“Any conductor who has studied the variants and comments here is likely to approach the works more freshly, even if many will take Del Mar’s labours on trust.”
(Early Music Review, July 2000)
“... I can assure you he [Jonathan Del Mar] is an absolutely first class musicologist, ... I can think of no one better to edit the Beethoven symphonies ... and the need for such authentic editions is greater in Beethoven than in any other great composer, simply because for some reason no really scholarly, editions of Beethoven’s works have been attempted.”
(Sir Charles Mackerras)
“So the main achievement of this edition is the removal of hundreds of errors that crept into the first edition and have been perpetuated, or have multiplied, in subsequent editions. And no one comparing Del Mar with any other edition of the Ninth can fail to be struck by the number of errors that have been identified and expunged.”
(Musical Times)
“It is high time that there was a reliable scholarly edition of this, the most celebrated of symphony cycles ... I think anyone who is at all serious about interpreting Beethoven’s symphonies will find they have totally new insights into the workings of that extraordinary mind ”.
(John Eliot Gardiner)
- ISMN: 9790006500017 (M006500017)
