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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I see there are two reviews - one very positive and one strangely not) on a slightly older version of this record but I'm posting this here as this one seems to be the currently available issue.
This is my third purchase from Vanska's Beethoven series. Although I had other excellent versions of the Beethoven symphonies, Vanska's accounts of 4, 5, 2 and 7 had already thoroughly converted me to the special virtues that he brings to this music (great clarity in rhythm and rhythmic interplay, a real sense of zing, a wealth of telling interpretive detail and wonderful phrasing, great skill and imagination in the building of those special Beethoven moments, fine orchestral sound vividly recorded ...). I can now add another virtue: each of his special performances has it's own mood and flavour in a sharper focus than is, I think, usual with Beethoven symphony sets. Each symphony has its special flavour rather than just sounding like "another issue of Vanska's Beethoven series".
Vanska's accounts of 1 and 6 are outstanding. The first is light footed and positively sings (and dances, too). It is very different from his wonderful account of Beethoven 2 - a clear example of how Vanska presents works that often seem to go together as "early Beethoven" in sharply focused accounts that bring out the individual qualities in the works. The Pastoral is quite simply wonderful - beautifully flowing and uplifting. The storm is brilliantly built and the scene that follws it as rustic as you could wish.
These must surely be the best recorded versions of these two symphonies (something I don't say lightly - I love Bohm's and Harnoncourt's 6th, for example, and would not be without them ... but these Vanska accounts are indispensible).
I've also bought the remaining records from this series (3, 8 & 9) and will write on them soon.
This is my third purchase from Vanska's Beethoven series. Although I had other excellent versions of the Beethoven symphonies, Vanska's accounts of 4, 5, 2 and 7 had already thoroughly converted me to the special virtues that he brings to this music (great clarity in rhythm and rhythmic interplay, a real sense of zing, a wealth of telling interpretive detail and wonderful phrasing, great skill and imagination in the building of those special Beethoven moments, fine orchestral sound vividly recorded ...). I can now add another virtue: each of his special performances has it's own mood and flavour in a sharper focus than is, I think, usual with Beethoven symphony sets. Each symphony has its special flavour rather than just sounding like "another issue of Vanska's Beethoven series".
Vanska's accounts of 1 and 6 are outstanding. The first is light footed and positively sings (and dances, too). It is very different from his wonderful account of Beethoven 2 - a clear example of how Vanska presents works that often seem to go together as "early Beethoven" in sharply focused accounts that bring out the individual qualities in the works. The Pastoral is quite simply wonderful - beautifully flowing and uplifting. The storm is brilliantly built and the scene that follws it as rustic as you could wish.
These must surely be the best recorded versions of these two symphonies (something I don't say lightly - I love Bohm's and Harnoncourt's 6th, for example, and would not be without them ... but these Vanska accounts are indispensible).
I've also bought the remaining records from this series (3, 8 & 9) and will write on them soon.
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Get all nine symphonies instead!
7 May 2012
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
Given the price and the title "Beethoven Symphonies" I thought I was getting all nine. But this only had 1 & 6, so I returned it. The entire set on SACD (import) is only $38.48, so why buy this disk at this price?
0 of 2 people found the following review helpful
A failed recording.
1 Mar 2012
Format:Audio CD
I make no excuse for endowing this SACD - BIS recording with only two stars on grounds that the sound is very threadbare, 'transistorized' and has no edge over any mid of the road normal CD.
This one is not fulfilling the hope and strive for a spectacular full bodied, full harmonically, or harmonically correct rendition of what one would expect from a SACD. Also, one would have to radically re-adjust the volume by several notches forward some 6 - to 9 dB louder. This phenomena is common to all BIS recording and one is left wondering what is the reason behind all this.
The reading might be interesting, but not enough to set the balance in favor of this SACD recording. Rather, it is a sort of a disappointment. So approach this product with caution and look somewhere else for a good Beethoven Sixth.
This one is not fulfilling the hope and strive for a spectacular full bodied, full harmonically, or harmonically correct rendition of what one would expect from a SACD. Also, one would have to radically re-adjust the volume by several notches forward some 6 - to 9 dB louder. This phenomena is common to all BIS recording and one is left wondering what is the reason behind all this.
The reading might be interesting, but not enough to set the balance in favor of this SACD recording. Rather, it is a sort of a disappointment. So approach this product with caution and look somewhere else for a good Beethoven Sixth.
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