Beethoven: Complete Symphonies Wiener Philharmoniker & Andris Nelsons

• Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827): Symphony No. 1 in C Major, Op. 21:
• 1 1. Adagio molto - Allegro con brio 09:45
• 2 2. Andante cantabile con moto 08:46
• 3 3. Menuetto (Allegro molto e vivace) 03:24
• 4 4. Finale (Adagio - Allegro molto e vivace) 05:55
• Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 36:
• 5 1. Adagio molto - Allegro con brio 12:30
• 6 2. Larghetto 12:04
• 7 3. Scherzo (Allegro) 03:34
• 8 4. Allegro molto 06:18
• Symphony No. 3 in E-Flat Major, Op. 55 "Eroica":
• 9 1. Allegro con brio 17:40
• 10 2. Marcia funèbre (Adagio assai) 16:34
• 11 3. Scherzo (Allegro vivace) 05:53
• 12 4. Finale (Allegro molto) 12:19
• Symphony No. 4 in B-Flat Major, Op. 60:
• 13 1. Adagio - Allegro vivace 11:30
• 14 2. Adagio 10:16
• 15 3. Allegro vivace 05:38
• 16 4. Allegro ma non troppo 06:54
• Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67:
• 17 1. Allegro con brio 07:42
• 18 2. Andante con moto 10:35
• 19 3. Allegro 05:14
• 20 4. Allegro 11:12
• Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68 "Pastoral":
• 21 1. Erwachen heiterer Empfindungen bei der Ankunft auf dem Lande (Allegro ma non troppo) 09:45
• 22 2. Szene am Bach (Andante molto mosso) 12:20
• 23 3. Lustiges Zusammensein der Landleute (Allegro) 05:08
• 24 4. Gewitter, Sturm (Allegro) 03:38
• 25 5. Hirtengesang. Frohe und dankbare Gefühle nach dem Sturm (Allegretto) 10:05
• Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Op. 92:
• 26 1. Poco sostenuto - Vivace 11:50
• 27 2. Allegretto 08:59
• 28 3. Presto - Assai meno presto 08:38
• 29 4. Allegro con brio 06:49
• Symphony No. 8 in F Major, Op. 93:
• 30 1. Allegro vivace e con brio 09:52
• 31 2. Allegretto scherzando 04:25
• 32 3. Tempo di menuetto 04:40
• 33 4. Allegro vivace 07:32
• Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, Op. 125 "Choral":
• 34 1. Allegro ma non troppo, un poco maestoso 16:42
• 35 2. Molto vivace 11:59
• 36 3. Adagio molto e cantabile 16:00
• 37 4a. Finale. Presto 02:53
• 38 4b. Allegro assai 03:50
• 39 4c. Presto - Recitativo "O Freunde, nicht diese Töne!" 03:35
• 40 4d. Allegro assai vivace (alla Marcia) 03:59
• 41 4e. Andante maestoso 03:17
• 42 4f. Allegro energico e sempre ben marcato 02:10
• 43 4g. Allegro ma non tanto 02:16
• 44 4h. Poco allegro, stringendo il tempo, sempre più allegro – Presto 01:43
• Total Runtime 05:55:48

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Deutsche Grammophon celebrates Beethoven’s 250th birthday. Andris Nelsons has joined forces with the Vienna Philharmonic to record Ludwig van Beethoven’s nine symphonies for Deutsche Grammophon. The release of their new album on October 4, 2019, will mark the start of the Yellow Label’s celebration of the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth in 2020. The Nelsons Beethoven cycle is presented in a specially commissioned deluxe box featuring the nine symphonies on five albums in HiRes sound quality.

Camilla Nylund, soprano
Gerhild Romberger, alto
Klaus Florian Vogt, tenor
Georg Zeppenfeld, bass
Wiener Singverein
Wiener Philharmoniker
Andris Nelsons, conductor

Andris Nelsons
is Music Director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Gewandhauskapellmeister of the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. These two positions, in addition to his leadership of a pioneering alliance between both institutions, have firmly established Grammy Award-winning Nelsons as one of the most renowned and innovative conductors on the international scene today.

Nelsons began his tenure as Music Director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra in the 2014/15 season. This season, the BSO and Nelsons embark on a major tour throughout Asia, giving their first concerts together in Seoul, Taipei, Hong Kong and Shanghai. The orchestra also continues its appearances at Carnegie Hall as part of the “Great American Orchestras” series, with a special concert performance of Act III of Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde featuring Jonas Kaufmann. Since his appointment as Gewandhauskapellmeister in Leipzig in February 2018, Nelsons and the Gewandhausorchester have completed a number of successful tours, including their first Asia tour together in May/June 2019, performing in Japan and China. This season, the orchestra looks forward to two European tours, which will include performances at the BBC Proms, the festivals in Salzburg and Lucerne, as well as Vienna’s prestigious Musikverein. October/November 2019 marks a special highlight for Nelsons, the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Gewandhausorchester: three joint performances in Boston’s Symphony Hall will be given as part of the alliance between the two orchestras, and the Gewandhausorchester will perform additional concerts as part of BSO’s subscription series.

During the 2019/20 season, Nelsons continues his regular collaborations with the Wiener Philharmoniker, with whom he conducts the prestigious New Year’s Day concert in 2020, broadcast to millions across the world. Furthermore, in celebration of the composer’s 250th anniversary, the Wiener Philharmoniker and Nelsons present a cycle of Beethoven’s symphonies at the Musikverein and on tour at the Philharmonie de Paris, Philharmonie am Gasteig in Munich, and Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie. Throughout his career, Nelsons has established regular collaborations with the Berliner Philharmoniker, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Concertgebouworkest and has been a regular guest at the Bayreuther Festspiele and at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden. Andris Nelsons has an exclusive recording relationship with Deutsche Grammophon, which has paved the way for three landmark projects. Nelsons and the BSO partner on recording the complete Shostakovich symphonies and the opera Lady Macbeth of the Mtensk District. The fourth and most recent instalment was released in February 2019. Each of the first three releases of the cycle have received Grammy Awards for Best Orchestral Performance, the third additionally winning in the Best Engineered Album, Classical category. Nelsons and the yellow label also have embarked upon a critically acclaimed project with the Gewandhausorchester that sheds new light on the symphonies of Bruckner, and pairs these distinctive symphonic pieces with works by Wagner. The most recent instalment was released in May 2019. Finally, Nelsons’ recordings of Beethoven’s complete symphonies with the Wiener Philharmoniker will be released in October 2019.

Born in Riga in 1978 into a family of musicians, Andris Nelsons began his career as a trumpeter in the Latvian National Opera Orchestra before studying conducting. He was Music Director of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra from 2008-2015, Principal Conductor of Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie in Herford, Germany 2006- 2009 and Music Director of the Latvian National Opera 2003-2007.

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