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CCSSA25207 L van Beethoven: Symphony No.7 - Budapest Festival Orchestra; Ivan Fischer, conductor CCSSA25207 L van Beethoven: Symphony No.7 - Budapest Festival Orchestra; Ivan Fischer, conductor

Label - Channel Classics

Cat. No. - CCSSA25207

SACD Hybrid Recording

Including BEETHOVEN Symphony No.7; WEBER Adagio from the Clarinet Concerto; ROSSINI L'Italiana in Algeri - Sinfonia; WILMS Rondo from Sinfonia a grand orchestra.

What would it have been like to hear Beethoven's seventh symphony at the first performance? How did listeners react to hearing the endless repetition of the first movement's dotted rhythm? Would they have been shocked to hear the melody of the second movement which repeats the same note twelve times? How did they respond to the finale's obsessive rhythmical drive which must have seemed like the rock music of the nineteenth century?

It's 'exciting' to hear this well known symphony together with contemporary works which may have been performed in the same year. Wilhelm Wilms followed the classical tradition of Haydn and Mozart with some innovative moments. His 4th symphony, composed a few years earlier had been published during the time when Beethoven worked on his masterpiece. The most popular composer of the day was undoubtedly Rossini. He created a completely new vocal style that influenced many other musicians. The slow movement of Weber's clarinet concerto for example sounds more operatic than instrumental in character.

This was the environment in which Beethoven developed his strikingly original ideas. It must have been quite an 'ear opener' to hear a symphony start with gentle wind chamber music supported by massive accents of the rest of the orchestra. What a contrast!
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