{"product_id":"weingartner-beethoven-symphony-no-9-choral-1935-pasc069","title":"WEINGARTNER Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 'Choral' (1935) - PASC069","description":"overviewfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eBEETHOVEN \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eSymphony No. 9 'Choral'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eRecorded in 1935\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eDuration 62:30\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eLuise Helletsgruber, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003esoprano \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003e Rosette Anday, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003econtralto\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003e Goerg Maikl, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003etenor\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003e Richard Mayr, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003ebass\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003e Vienna State Opera Choir\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003e Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eConducted by\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003e Felix Weingartner\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_titlefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fBill Rosen's Review578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_quotefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fSilence. Sweet strings. Plangent brass. Round woodwinds. True tympani. Impossible to describe. Must be heard.578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_bodyfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp class=\"bodysmallarial\"\u003eThere is not doubt that, for me, the\nWeingartner Beethoven 9th Symphony is on the short list of forever great\nperformances of that work. Fellow occupants include the Toscanini 1952\n(not the 1939 in which Toscanini drives the music like the “Headless\nHorseman”), the 1942 Furtwängler (March 22, 1942, not the April 19, 1942\nwith the whole Nazi leadership in attendance), and the Klemperer\nPhilharmonia (granite).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"bodysmallarial\"\u003eWhat now gives the Weingartner precedence is:\n(1) its incredible finale with the finest singers ever appearing in a\nrecording of the 9th and (2) a recent breakthrough in recreative\n processing that Pristine audio has applied to this 9th.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"bodysmallarial\"\u003eWhile the first three movements of the\nsymphony are superbly balanced-form and expression-it is in the\nperformance of the last movement, the choral finale, that I consider\nthat Weingartner has trumped all rivals and created a benchmark that has\nnot been reached yet for 72 years. I have never been completely\nconvinced by the choral finale (please do not flog me too hard!!). I\nfeel there are places where its seams show. It also appears to me that\nits soloists often put caterwauling brakes on the action.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"bodysmallarial\"\u003eWith Weingartner, none of this happens. When\nthe soloist sings out “Freude”, he drowns out everything. The four\nsoloists intertwine into such beautiful and powerful quartets. They\ndon’t hold up the action; they move it on. By his shaping, Weingartner\nknits all the seams together into a nearly perfect unit; he does not\nrush, but it seems that everything is going by so fast.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"bodysmallarial\"\u003eNow the sound. For about 25 years I had a\nmiserable Columbia LP. For years afterward, I subsisted on a French\nrecording, not bad, a bit murky, but at least it was a CD. Then Opus\nKura, a Japanese outfit issued a really good-sounding reprocessing. I\nwas very enthusiastic, even though there was considerable background\nnoise, what a friend calls “the sound of eggs and bacon frying”. And now\nthe Pristine Audio release. A different thing altogether. Silence.\nSweet strings. Plangent brass. Round woodwinds. True tympani. Impossible\nto describe. Must be heard.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"bodysmallarial\"\u003eLet’s hope the Toscanini and Furtwängler are\nnot far behind. But no matter with Pristine Audio does, the finale of\nthe 9th belongs to Weingartner,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9main_samplefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fsamples\/PASC069.mp3578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_labelfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fProducer's Note578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_typefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fcontent578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_contentfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"body\"\u003eWeingartner's 1935 Vienna recording of the Choral Symphony is without doubt one of the highlights of the recorded canon. The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra is showing all the signs both of its long heritage and also of becoming a well-disciplined modern orchestra in the new era of full orchestral recordings that began just ten years earlier with the first use of the microphone in the electrical recording method. The Vienna State Opera Choir is of course superb, as is the almost ideal quartet of soloists heard here. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"body\"\u003eSonically this was without doubt a mid-1930s recording. Worse than that, the final movement was recorded separately and sounded completely different in its tonal balance to the rest of the recording. Here I've used the techniques behind the \u003cem\u003ePristine Audio Natural Sound\u003c\/em\u003e method, for which this was the second recording to benefit, both to resurrect the overall sound quality, counteracting the multiple discrepancies introduced by 1930's recording methods, and also to bring the finale closer in tone to the rest of the recording. Now you will no longer feel a bit of a jolt as you move from the end of the third and into the fourth movements.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"body\"\u003eNot long after I had finished working on this recording, a task characterised normally by contemplating noise, hiss, crackles and clicks, I spent an hour of pure magic in the company of the Vienna Philharmonic under Felix Weingartner, my eyes shut, a winter fire glowing at my feet, marvelling at this wonderful recording and the new-found ability to, more accurately than ever, reproduce it for a new generation of listeners - as well as some who recall it from first time around...\u003c\/p\u003e578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_cover_thumbnail1_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_cover_thumbnail2_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_cover_download_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample1_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample2_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample3_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample4_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample5_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample6_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_labelfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fFull Track Listing578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_typefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5ftrack_listing578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_contentfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eBEETHOVEN \u003c\/b\u003eSymphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125, 'Choral'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:  1st mvt. - Allegro ma non troppo, un poco maestoso  (15:24)\u003cbr\u003e2:  2nd mvt. - Molto vivace  (10:00)\u003cbr\u003e3:  3rd mvt. - Adagio e cantabile - Andante moderato  (14:33)  \u003cbr\u003e4:  4th mvt. - Presto - Allegro assai  (22:33)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLuise Helletsgruber, \u003c\/b\u003esoprano \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Rosette Anday, \u003c\/b\u003econtralto\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Goerg Maikl, \u003c\/b\u003etenor\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Richard Mayr, \u003c\/b\u003ebass\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Vienna State Opera Choir\u003cbr\u003e Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eConducted by\u003cb\u003e Felix Weingartner\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bodysmallarial\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,san-serif;\"\u003eRecorded 2-5 February, 1935 at Mittlerer Konzerthaussaal, Vienna\u003cbr\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eRemastered from US Columbia Masterworks 78s set 227, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003e Catalogue numbers 68357-D to 68364-D\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003e Matrix numbers CHAX-61 to CHAX-76\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000; 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