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Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 5 and 6.(Sound Recording Review)
Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 5 and 6. Bruno Weil, Tafelmusik. Analekta AN 2 9831.
Beethoven wrote both his Fifth and Sixth Symphonies in 1808 and premiered them together at a concert that any music lover today would give his right arm to have attended. The concert also included a part of the Mass in C, a piano solo, the Choral Fantasy, and the Fourth Piano Concerto, with Beethoven himself at the keyboard for all of the piano work. The present disc does not contain all of that music, just the two symphonies, but I wonder why no enterprising record company hasn't thought of issuing a two-disc set that duplicates that famous occasion.
Anyway, the Symphonies are played by the period-instruments' group Tafelmusik under the guidance of conductor Bruno Weil. I might have preferred the group's regular music director, Jeanne Lamon, but Weil is a fine conductor in any case. He does something with the "Pastoral" Symphony that most conductors don't manage: He directs a brisk, vigorous, ostensibly "authentic" account without seeming rushed. By comparison, Norrington's groundbreaking ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 5 and 6.(Sound Recording Review)