Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven, Jan Ladislav Dussek, Ignaz Josef Pleyel
Orchestra: Wiener Akademie
Conductor: Martin Haselböck
Audio CD
Number of Discs: 1
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Alpha
Release: 2016
Size: 1.14 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92
01. I. Poco sostenuto – Vivace
02. II. Allegretto in A Minor
03. III. Presto in F Major
04.IV. Allegro con brio
05. Pleyel: “Jubel” March (Orchestrated by Thomas Trsek)
06. Dussek, J L: The Brunswick March, C. 263 (Orchestrated by Thomas Trsek)
Beethoven: Wellington’s Victory or the Battle of Vittoria
07. Pt. 1, Op. 91: Battle
08. Pt. 2, Op. 91: Victory Symphony
Recorded: 10-14 March 2015
Recording Venue: Ceremonial Hall of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna
It was shortly before his forty-third birthday that Beethoven hit the jackpot. On the podium of the Great Hall of Vienna University, he conducted a spectacular charity event with a star-studded cast from the very top drawer. On that date, 8 December 1813, the success was so great that the concert had to be repeated four days later. For this event, Beethoven had taken an entertainment specialist on board: Johann Nepomuk Mälzel, ‘k. k. Hofmechanicus’ (Mechanic to the Imperial and Royal Court) by trade, an inventor as talented as he was crafty. From late summer to autumn 1813, assisted by Mälzel, Beethoven was engaged in the composition of Wellingtons Sieg (Wellington’s Victory).
Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7 had already virtually acquired a patina, so long did it have to wait for its extraordinary premiere: although it comes one opus number after Wellingtons Sieg, it was written nearly two years before it, between the autumn of 1811 and the spring of 1812. But the new path it blazed was all the more prodigious as a result.