164 DVD-A / TACET’s Beethoven Symphonies: nos. 5 & 6
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This is definitely a reference hi-res disc both because of the orchestral performance and the sound. If anybody still out there dares to say that regular CDs are just as good as a hi-res surround sound SACD [editor's note: or DVD-A] all they have to do is listen to this disc with the appropriate equipment. Specifically they should go to the Finale of the 5th (T-4) and T-8, the Storm movement of the 6th - there are no words to accurately describe the feeling of being in the midst of orchestra as it were. A highly recommended disc, both for the sublime orchestral performance and more so for the glorious sound – a must have!
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Klassik heute –
Regarding the conception and recording technique, I refer to what I have written about the recording of the Seventh and Eighth Symphonies: that this Beethoven, presented in a very beautiful and pleasing spatiality, draws attention to many details that one might otherwise only know from the scores, and that the production conveys, from beginning to end, the highly enjoyable impression that the performers approached their task with extraordinary delight in the adventure.
While there were still minor contact issues at the start of the Seventh, this time, after the first knock of fate, the pleasant suspicion arose in me that this interpretation might grow into something truly special. And so it did: Recently, I have rarely embarked so willingly on the journey per aspera ad astra as I did along this well-balanced, brisk, never artificially dramatic, yet again surprisingly nuanced and never didactic route, which, with sweeping momentum and élan, leads into an even more blissful Pastoral—a world of exquisite, at times almost impressionistic delicacy, in which neither the seismographically sensitive sequences of the first movement, nor the broad waves of the concluding paean, nor the rumbling thunderclaps of the multicolored storm are endangered by routine gestures. Very remarkable and very promising indeed!
Rasmus van Rijn
TACET –
Further reviews of this production can be found on the product page of the SACD-Version.