Review by: David Hurwitz
Artistic Quality: 6
Sound Quality: 9
I wanted to love this. Honeck is a brilliant conductor who has given us great Beethoven. There are fantastic things in the first two movements especially, but this performance is disfigured by a desperate need to be different, important, and epic. The result is mannered, unnatural, and ultimately, less expressively intense that it should be. What a pity!
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Recording Details:
Reference Recording: Wand (RCA); Blomstedt/Dresden (Brilliant Classics); Fricsay (DG)- BEETHOVEN, LUDWIG VAN:Symphony No. 9
- Christina Landshamer (soprano); Jennifer Johnson Cano (mezzo-soprano); Werner Güra (tenor); Shenyang (bass-baritone)
- Honeck, Manfred (conductor)
- Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh
- Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
- Reference Recordings - FR-741
- SACD
