Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 1-9 (complete)
Disc 1
Symphony No. 1 in C major, Op. 21
1. Adagio molto - Allegro con brio (08:46)
2. Andante cantabile con moto (07:52)
3. Menuetto: Allegro molto e vivace (03:41)
4. Finale: Adagio - Allegro molto e vivace (05:49)
Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 36
1. Adagio molto - Allegro con brio (13:05)
2. Larghetto (13:33)
3. Scherzo and Trio: Allegro (03:41)
4. Allegro molto (06:35)
Disc 2
Symphony No. 3 in E flat major ("Eroica"), Op. 55
1. Allegro con brio (19:38)
2. Marcia funebre: Adagio assai (17:35)
3. Scherzo: Allegro vivace (05:53)
4. Finale: Allegro molto (12:22)
Egmont, incidental music, Op. 84: Overture
Overture (08:57)
Coriolan Overture, Op. 62 (08:09)
Disc 3
Symphony No. 4 in B flat major, Op. 60
1. Adagio - Allegro vivace (12:08)
2. Adagio (11:02)
3. Allegro vivace - Trio: Un poco meno mosso (05:24)
4. Allegro ma non troppo (06:56)
Symphony No. 5 in C minor ("Fate"), Op. 67
1. Allegro con brio (08:17)
2. Andante con moto (11:11)
3. Allegro - (05:31)
4. Allegro (11:32)
Disc 4
Symphony No. 6 in F major ("Pastoral"), Op. 68
1. Allegro ma non troppo: Awakening of happy feelings on arrival in the country (12:31)
2. Andante molto mosso : Scene by the brook (13:23)
3. Allegro: Joyous gathering of country folk (05:20)
4. Allegro: Tempest, storm (03:46)
5. Allegretto: Shepherds' song: happy and thankful feelings after the storm (09:54)
Fidelio, overture, Op. 72c (13:58)
Disc 5
Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92
1. Poco sostenuto - Vivace (14:42)
2. Allegretto (08:57)
3. Presto (09:28)
4. Allegro con brio (09:14)
Symphony No. 8 in F major, Op. 93
1. Allegro vivace e con brio (10:10)
2. Allegretto scherzando (04:13)
3. Tempo di menuetto (05:35)
4. Allegro vivace (07:43)
Disc 6
Symphony No. 9 in D minor ("Choral"), Op. 125
1. Allegro ma non troppo, un poco maestoso (17:41)
2. Molto vivace (14:00)
3. Adagio molto e cantabile (19:49)
4. Presto - Allegro assai - Alla marica: Allegro vivace assai - Andante maestoso - Allegro energico (24:58)
Disc 7
Sir Georg Solti in conversation with William Mann
How long had you been conducting Beethoven symphonies... (04:57)
Which of the great Beethoven conductors of your youth... (05:39)
Did you have to teach the Chicago Symphony Orchestra a very different sort of Beethoven... (09:19)
Now the "Eroica"... (04:58)
I wanted to ask you a question about the Sixth Symphony... (05:07)
The Seventh Symphony...are there special problems... (03:53)
Now the Eighth... (05:46)
The Ninth is obviously... (06:08)
Pilar Lorengar (soprano), Yvonne Minton (mezzo-soprano), Stuart Burrows (tenor) & Martti Talvela (bass)
Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Chicago Symphony Chorus, Sir Georg Solti
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