Klaus tennstedt beethoven 9th second

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Welcome to the 113th work in the Slipped Disc/Idagio Beethoven Edition

Symphony No.

9 in D minor op. 125 (part 6)

(1 How Beethoven wrote it here. 2 How the world changed it here. 3 How do you choose a Ninth here. 4 Furtwängler or Karajan here.

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We are down to the wire. From almost a century of recordings and 150 versions, I am about to whittle down the list to a manageable dozen.

Inevitably, personal experience conditions my choices.

The first Ninth that I attended was, I think, with Otto Klemperer, though I may only have seen him on television. Whichever it was, the impregable figure of Klemperer looms large in my early consciousness and the sound that he conjures at the opening of this 1960 recording possesses such authority that, once heard, one cannot imagine it being done in any other way.

The Philharmonia Orchestra sounds more German tha