Jarvi: Beethoven – Symphony No. 9 (FLAC)

Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven
Performer: Christiane Oelze, Petra Lang, Klaus Florian Volt, Matthias Goerne,
Orchestra: The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie
Conductor: Paavo Jarvi
Audio CD
Number of Discs: 1
Format: FLAC (image+cue)
Label: SBME
Size: 254 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: no

Symphony No.9 in D Minor, op.125
1. Allegro ma non troppo e un poco maestoso
2. Molto vivace
3. Adagio molto e cantabile
4. Presto; Allegro assai
5. Presto; Recitativo “O Freunden, nicht diese Töne!” (bar208)
6. Allegro assai vivace “Froh, froh, wie seine Sonnen” (bar331)
7. Freude, schöner Götterfunken (bar543)
8. Andante maestoso “Seid umschlungen Millionen!” (bar 594)
9. Allegro energico, sempre ben marcato “Freude, schöner Götterfunken” (bar 654)
10. Allegro ma non tanto “Tochter, Tochter aus Elysium!” (bar 763)
11. Poco Allegro, stringendo it tempo, sempre piu Allegro (bar 843)

Best Most Absorbing Reading Ever

I’ve listened recordings and live performances of 5 or 6 major symphonies/conductors since the 1960’s. When I got the Jarvi CD’s of #1,#3,#5,#8 with the Bremmen Chamber Orchestra I was impressed by how bright and crisp that all of the small parts and melodies and counterpoint appear that I never heard clearly in any of the large orchestra recordings in the past.

So I couldn’t wait to sample the Ninth with a 16 voice chamber chorus. It is the best I’ve heard in the same style as the other Jarvi readings. The small chorus is sublime…you can hear every syllable of the Ode sung and counter melodies sung among the choral parts that I got little sense of in the cacaphony of large choruses. Simply the best!