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Beethoven, Shaw, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
Symphony 9
Genre: Classical

Track Listings (13) - Disc #1
1. Symphony No. 9 in D minor ('Choral'), Op. 125
2. Symphony No. 9 in D minor ('Choral'), Op. 125
3. Symphony No. 9 in D minor ('Choral'), Op. 125
4. Symphony No. 9 in D minor ('Choral'), Op. 125
5. Symphony No. 9 in D minor ('Choral'), Op. 125
6. Symphony No. 9 in D minor ('Choral'), Op. 125
7. Symphony No. 9 in D minor ('Choral'), Op. 125
8. Symphony No. 9 in D minor ('Choral'), Op. 125
9. Symphony No. 9 in D minor ('Choral'), Op. 125
10. Symphony No. 9 in D minor ('Choral'), Op. 125
11. Symphony No. 9 in D minor ('Choral'), Op. 125
12. Symphony No. 9 in D minor ('Choral'), Op. 125
13. Symphony No. 9 in D minor ('Choral'), Op. 125

CD Details

All Artists: Beethoven, Shaw, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
Title: Symphony 9
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Intersound Records
Release Date: 3/14/1995
Genre: Classical
Styles: Historical Periods, Classical (c.1770-1830), Modern, 20th, & 21st Century, Symphonies
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 015095343024

Synopsis

Amazon.com

This is without a doubt one of the dullest Beethoven performances in the catalog. Robert Shaw is an excellent choral director, and he's made some marvelous recordings of the choral repertoire for Telarc. But this is a symphony first and foremost. Only the finale has voices, after all, and by the time you get there, it's not too likely that you'll still be awake. Flabby recorded sound completes a thoroughly unappetizing package. --David Hurwitz

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CD Reviews

Excellent

albertatamazon | East Point, Georgia USA | 01/27/1999

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I don't personally own this album; however, I have been lucky enough to hear it. I have also heard Shaw perform this live, and it was thrilling. I truly think that this recording of Beethoven's greatest work and one of music's masterpieces is second only to Toscanini's great 1952 recording of the symphony. Where is the dullness in the recording? Perhaps some listeners might like Shaw to take more liberties with the music-maybe that's their idea of excitement. But Shaw offers a straightforward,direct performance of the symphony. Excellent playing from the ASO and absolutely brilliant choral singing.

A 2005 update to this review:

This album is no longer in print because the recording company that first released it back in 1985 seems to have gone out of business, and so far, no other recording company, not even Telarc, which records most of the Atlanta Symphony releases, has picked up the slack. That is a shocking reflection on recording companies, IMHO. This is one of Robert Shaw's "signature pieces", and as such, every effort should be made to restore this recording and reissue it, even if the Atlanta Symphony has made a more recent recording of it. No one can match Shaw at conducting the "Ode to Joy"."