BEETHOVEN: 9 SYMPHONIES - Karl Bohm, Vienna Phil. (Ltd. Ed. 9 Vinyl LPs, 1977)
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BEETHOVEN: 9 SYMPHONIES - Karl Bohm conducting the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, with Gwyneth Jones, Tatiana Troyanos, Jess Thomas, Karl Ridderbusch, Norbert Balatsch (Limited Numbered Edition #1322, 9 Vinyl LPs, 1977)
Review from another site: These performances, taken as a whole, never have gotten the credit that they deserve. The reason was not artistic, but political. Deutsche Grammophon in the 1960s and ’70s was totally in thrall to Karajan and his two Berlin cycles, and then Bernstein took on Beethoven with this same orchestra. Under the circumstances, Böhm scarcely stood a chance, even though he was a much better conductor in the standard German repertoire than Karajan ever was (Bernstein is another matter altogether).
There are some wonderful things in this Beethoven cycle. You might say that its strengths are also its weaknesses. It is consistently large in scale. This makes the first two symphonies clearly foreshadow the later ones, and gives the Fourth a grandeur that really does put it on the level of the Fifth. It’s a very great performance in every sense of the word. The “Eroica” is also suitably big and heroic, and never stodgy. The same can’t be said, alas, of the Fifth and Seventh, which do have a touch of Germanic heaviness about them. This isn’t such a problem in the Fifth, with its sturdy march rhythms, but it does bog down the finale of the Seventh, despite transparent textures and some wonderful sounds from the Vienna horns. However, this “Pastoral” Symphony always has been considered a reference version, with playing from the Vienna Philharmonic that is exceptionally beautiful, interrupted only by that whale of a storm. Best of all, the cycle culminates in one of the truly great Ninths, ideally paced, with the Adagio just a hair shorter than the first movement, a gruffly rhythmic scherzo, and a magnificently sung finale with a coda that provides the greatest rush since Furtwängler, but without his chronic sloppiness.
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