Beethoven: Complete Symphonies 5 x CD & BLU-RAY Box Set Andris Nelsons Classical

Description: BRAND NEW AND SEALED 5 CD & BLU-RAY BOX SET Beethoven: Complete Symphonies by Andris Nelsons, Wiener Philharmoniker (2019) 6 Disc Box Set ( 5 x CD & 1 x Blu-Ray) FAST & FREE SAME DAY SHIPPING Andris Nelsons has joined forces with the Wiener Philharmoniker to record Ludwig van Beethoven’s nine symphonies for Deutsche Grammophon. The release of their new album on 4 October 2019 will mark the start of the Yellow Label’s celebration of the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth next year. The Nelsons Beethoven cycle is presented in a specially commissioned deluxe box featuring the nine works on five CDs and a single Blu-ray Audio disc in TrueHD sound quality. Beethoven has been central to Andris Nelsons’ work since he began his career in the early 2000s. The Latvian conductor garnered rave reviews for his 2013-14 Beethoven cycle with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and scored critical acclaim for more recent Beethoven performances as Music Director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Leipzig Gewandhausorchester. In March and April this year he joined the Wiener Philharmoniker, the world’s supreme Beethoven orchestra, for a series of concerts including works by the composer in Vienna, Hamburg and Hanover, and for the final recording sessions at the Vienna Musikverein of their complete symphony cycle for Deutsche Grammophon. “The journey of interpreting Beethoven’s symphonies signifies a great opportunity, responsibility and challenge, but in the end, it’s not about me, it’s purely about the genius and universal quality of Beethoven’s music, which speaks to each and every individual,” comments Andris Nelsons. “Of course, I need to have a vision, and our task as musicians is to find a fulfilling way of presenting Beethoven’s ideas to listeners, but this will always be very subjective and deeply personal.” The Wiener Philharmoniker’s roots reach back to Beethoven’s lifetime. Its immediate predecessor began life with performances of four of his symphonies a few years after his death, and Beethoven was on the bill for the orchestra’s first concert in March 1842. He has been central to its repertoire ever since. To be invited to perform and record the symphonies with the Wiener Philharmoniker, says Nelsons, was an honour and a privilege. “The opportunity for me to perform these symphonies and record them for Deutsche Grammophon with the Wiener Philharmoniker has been a great gift, not least because we know how important Vienna was to Beethoven,” notes the conductor. “He spent most of his life in the city and his symphonies were first performed there. When the Wiener Philharmoniker play Beethoven, the style is immediately there. This means they can focus on the essence of the music.” Beethoven’s nine symphonies reveal the unique qualities of his compositional art, which astonished his contemporaries. They also reflect the turbulent age in which he lived and demonstrate the remarkable changes he wrought in the genre itself. Each work marks a new step from the one before: from the more conventional First, still reminiscent of Haydn and Mozart, via the revolutionary “Eroica”, with its incredible expressive range, the Fifth and Sixth, both radical in their different ways, and the dancelike vitality of the Seventh, to the wholly original, dramatic and life-affirming Ninth, whose message for humanity has long transcended the concert hall. Over the past century the symphonies have been recorded as a complete cycle more than 160 times by an array of legendary conductors, whose ranks Andris Nelsons now joins. The Wiener Philharmoniker itself has recorded all nine works six times as well as participating in multi-orchestra cycles. Nelsons is adamant, however, that no matter how many times they are performed or recorded, these works retain their freshness. “There are so many amazing recordings of the Beethoven symphonies from the past, but I believe his music always has something to say about the present day,” he observes. “Being able to perform and record these works of genius again and again allows musicians to emphasise just how real they are for their own generation and for future generations. It’s music for our time and all time.” TRACK LISTING Disc: 1 1 I. Adagio Molto - Allegro Con Brio 2 II. Andante Cantabile Con Moto 3 III. Menuetto. Allegro Molto E Vivace 4 IV. Finale. Adagio - Allegro Molto E Vivace 5 I. Allegro Con Brio 6 II. Marcia Funèbre. Adagio Assai 7 III. Scherzo. Allegro Vivace 8 IV. Finale. Allegro Molto Disc: 2 1 I. Adagio Molto - Allegro Con Brio 2 II. Larghetto 3 III. Scherzo. Allegro 4 IV. Allegro Molto 5 I. Adagio - Allegro Vivace 6 II. Adagio 7 III. Allegro Vivace 8 IV. Allegro Ma Non Troppo Disc: 3 1 I. Allegro Con Brio 2 II. Andante Con Moto 3 III. Allegro 4 IV. Allegro 5 I. Erwachen Heiterer Empfindungen Bei Der Ankunft Auf Dem Lande. Allegro Ma Non Troppo 6 II. Szene Am Bach. Andante Molto Mosso 7 III. Lustiges Zusammensein Der Landleute. Allegro 8 IV. Gewitter, Sturm. Allegro 9 V. Hirtengesang - Frohe Und Dankbare Gefühle Nach Dem Sturm. Allegretto Disc: 4 1 I. Poco Sostenuto - Vivace 2 II. Allegretto 3 III. Presto - Assai Meno Presto 4 IV. Allegro Con Brio 5 I. Allegro Vivace E Con Brio 6 II. Allegretto Scherzando 7 III. Tempo Di Menuetto 8 IV. Allegro Vivace Disc: 5 1 I. Allegro Ma Non Troppo, Un Poco Maestoso 2 II. Molto Vivace 3 III. Adagio Molto E Cantabile 4 IVa. Finale. Presto 5 IVb. Allegro Assai 6 IVc. Presto - O Freunde, Nicht Diese Töne! - Camilla Nylund, Gerhild Romberger, Klaus Florian Vogt, Georg Zeppenfeld, Wiener Singverein, Johannes Prinz, Wiener Philharmoniker, Andris Nelsons 7 IVd. Allegro Assai Vivace Alla Marcia - Klaus Florian Vogt, Wiener Singverein, Johannes Prinz, Wiener Philharmoniker, Andris Nelsons 8 IVe. Andante Maestoso - Wiener Singverein, Johannes Prinz, Wiener Philharmoniker, Andris Nelsons 9 IVf. Allegro Energico E Sempre Ben Marcato - Wiener Singverein, Johannes Prinz, Wiener Philharmoniker, Andris Nelsons 10 IVg. Allegro Ma Non Tanto - Camilla Nylund, Gerhild Romberger, Klaus Florian Vogt, Georg Zeppenfeld, Wiener Singverein, Johannes Prinz, Wiener Philharmoniker, Andris Nelsons 11 IVh. Poco Allegro, Stringendo Il Tempo, Sempre Più Allegro - Presto - Wiener Singverein, Johannes Prinz, Wiener Philharmoniker, Andris Nelsons Disc: 6 1 I. Adagio Molto - Allegro Con Brio 2 II. Andante Cantabile Con Moto 3 III. Menuetto. Allegro Molto E Vivace 4 IV. Finale. Adagio - Allegro Molto E Vivace 5 I. Allegro Con Brio 6 II. Marcia Funèbre. Adagio Assai 7 III. Scherzo. Allegro Vivace 8 IV. Finale. Allegro Molto 9 I. Adagio Molto - Allegro Con Brio 10 II. Larghetto 11 III. Scherzo. Allegro 12 IV. Allegro Molto 13 I. Adagio - Allegro Vivace 14 II. Adagio 15 III. Allegro Vivace 16 IV. Allegro Ma Non Troppo 17 I. Allegro Con Brio 18 II. Andante Con Moto 19 III. Allegro 20 IV. Allegro 21 I. Erwachen Heiterer Empfindungen Bei Der Ankunft Auf Dem Lande. Allegro Ma Non Troppo 22 II. Szene Am Bach. Andante Molto Mosso 23 III. Lustiges Zusammensein Der Landleute. Allegro 24 IV. Gewitter, Sturm. Allegro 25 V. Hirtengesang - Frohe Und Dankbare Gefühle Nach Dem Sturm. Allegretto 26 I. Poco Sostenuto - Vivace 27 II. Allegretto 28 III. Presto - Assai Meno Presto 29 IV. Allegro Con Brio 30 I. Allegro Vivace E Con Brio 31 II. Allegretto Scherzando 32 III. Tempo Di Menuetto 33 IV. Allegro Vivace 34 I. Allegro Ma Non Troppo, Un Poco Maestoso 35 II. Molto Vivace 36 III. Adagio Molto E Cantabile 37 IVa. Finale. Presto 38 IVb. Allegro Assai 39 IVc. Presto - O Freunde, Nicht Diese Töne! - Camilla Nylund, Gerhild Romberger, Klaus Florian Vogt, Georg Zeppenfeld, Wiener Singverein, Johannes Prinz, Wiener Philharmoniker, Andris Nelsons 40 IVd. Allegro Assai Vivace Alla Marcia - Klaus Florian Vogt, Wiener Singverein, Johannes Prinz, Wiener Philharmoniker, Andris Nelsons 41 IVe. Andante Maestoso - Wiener Singverein, Johannes Prinz, Wiener Philharmoniker, Andris Nelsons 42 IVf. Allegro Energico E Sempre Ben Marcato - Wiener Singverein, Johannes Prinz, Wiener Philharmoniker, Andris Nelsons 43 IVg. Allegro Ma Non Tanto - Camilla Nylund, Gerhild Romberger, Klaus Florian Vogt, Georg Zeppenfeld, Wiener Singverein, Johannes Prinz, Wiener Philharmoniker, Andris Nelsons 44 IVh. Poco Allegro, Stringendo Il Tempo, Sempre Più Allegro - Presto - Wiener Singverein, Johannes Prinz, Wiener Philharmoniker, Andris Nelsons

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