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In Reply to: RE: Nominate the best SACD recording of Beethoven's 9th, or any other of his symphonies. NT posted by sleeper on December 10, 2019 at 18:53:43
Minnesota Orchestra conducted by Osmo Vanska. A boxed SACD set of the complete symphonies is usually available at a bargain price.
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Vanska, baby! If you like Carlos Kleiber's approach to Beethoven's symphonies, you'll probably like Vanska - they are similar. The audio quality on all the Vanska/Minnesota BIS label recordings is outstanding.
Of course, you need the Kleibers as well, and Walter, Toscanini, Abbaddo, Bohm, Ansermet, Jochum, Boulez, von Karajan, Bernstein, Erich Kleiber, and Reiner. I know I'm forgetting a few. The only "bad" one I now of was the Bernstein perf after the fall of the Berlin wall, which I found ridiculously slow and self-indulgent. (Who you gonna believe, me or Bernstein? Don't answer that.)
You need 'em all, including those with awful sound, or transfers from 78's.
Here's a suggestion: pick a symphony (I'd avoid the 9th, because the choral movement almost takes it into different territory) and get all the recordings of it you can find. Listen to one each week, and *really* listen to it, phone turned off, in the dark, maybe twice. After you cycle through all the recordings, which will probably take half a year or so, start to re-listen to the different conductors to see how they approached it, what they brought out in it. When you're done, you'll be able to get *so* much more enjoyment from any performance of that symphony, it's really pretty shocking. There is no substitute for deep understanding of a masterpiece. Some say having a printed score helps as well.
Enjoy.
WW
"I'd crawl over twenty miles of bad country to listen to you pee in a tin cup on the telephone." (Jo Carol Pierce)
Yes, I probably spend too much time listening to the gear, rather than appreciating the music! I like your comment about developing a deep understanding of a masterpiece. I have the tools, but do I have the will?
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