Beethoven: Symphony No.9
) | Label: Tahra Catalog: FURT2001 Format: SACD HYBRID Gramophone Award 1995.Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) Symphony No.9 Tahra's first SACD is a new mastering of their "signature" CD, which won the label a Gramophone Award in 1995 and has been a perennial bestseller. The great Wilhelm Furtwangler wrote of Beethoven's masterwork, "The Ninth Symphony is pure music through and through. Take the theme of the adagio; totally wrapped up in itself, far removed from day-to-day world, decorated with an infinite number of rose windows, the very essence of gothic architecture. But this adagio is one element of Beethoven's creative synthesis: the first movement alone is a self-contained musical universe. Beethoven uses contrasts as needed, in both the scherzo and adagio, until the finale bursts upon us as the ultimate antithesis and synthesis, that puts everything that has come before into proper perspective, unleashing in all their fury, the tragic and Dionysian forces contained within the music." |