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Beethoven Symphonies 1-9

Label: Solo Musica
Catalogue number: 312
EAN / barcode: 4260445450105
Number of CDs: 10

Beethoven Symphonies Like You've Never Heard Them Before Including FREE access to streaming/downloading via Bandcamp App. Beethoven's symphonies like you've never heard them before. That's quite a claim, one we need to make good on immediately. I'll give you two reasons why 'our' symphonies will be completely different from any performance you know. And why you absolutely don't want to miss them. The first reason is the phenomenal transcription of the symphonies for four-hand piano, made by Beethoven's friend and student Carl Czerny. Yes, you don't hear an orchestra, but an incredibly beautiful fortepiano. A copy of a genuine Viennese grand piano from 1816, carefully measured and painstakingly recreated, specially for this project. Czerny, nowadays often criticized, but Beethoven's far favorite collaborator for symphonic transcriptions. He made absolute masterpieces of his friend's symphonies. And although these transcriptions could easily win the prize for best transcriptions ever, they have never been recorded in their entirety. The second reason is the tempo we adopted. Tempo determines everything. It's extremely important, not only for every musician today, but also for Beethoven. Even three months before his death, he wrote to his publisher Schott to wait for his metronome markings. And if you think we've heard Beethoven's works in his tempos often these days, I have to disappoint you. The lightning-fast Beethoven has become a symbol today of an entire musical society. But that version is unsustainable. The speeds demanded according to current insights go beyond any human capability. Something else must have been going on. Because whatever Beethoven prescribed for his works, it must be logical. It must be very logical. So we picked up our metronome and began this journey, determined to find the solution to this long-standing problem. Four years and countless hours of research, experimentation and recording later, we are proud to present all nine symphonies in a way you've never heard them before. Ultimately, we didn't have to do anything too extreme – the only adjustment we made was interpreting Beethoven's metronome markings the way physicists read a pendulum today. This is the Beethoven we've rediscovered, this is the Beethoven we embrace and that we want you to fully experience in all its power.

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