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Dominic
Montreal, Canada
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Joined on 08-23-2006

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A fresh take on 9th by the OSM
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The 4th movement of Beethoven's was playing on the radio the other day and my ears perked up. I almost didn't recognize it at all. I was quite surprised to find out that it was performed by my humble local Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal and the characterful Kent Nagano waving the stick.
I did a little shuffling around and found out that it was recorded pretty recently and is packaged as the whole symphony with a performance of the poem "where have you gone my revolutionary friend?" by Yann Martel by way of introduction which is repeated after the finale in the original french.

http://www.analekta.com/en/album/?orchestre-symphonique-de-montreal-beethoven-9th-symphony-human-misery-human-love.1674.html

The caveat is that so far i've only properly listened to the 4th movement. What i did hear was rather unusual. Most i've heard, from Furtwangler to Szell treat the finale as a a very constant piece, whole unto itself but the variation from passage to passage in this version is striking to the extent that you might wonder what you're listening to. There's a hymn like quality to this interpretation that you might find hinted at in other versions.

No idea how the CD sounds
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Goetz


Hamburg/GER and Gdansk/PL
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Joined on 01-14-2013

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The deep canadian forests
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Thank you, Dominic for this new (to me) link, music source and even radio ! Out of the deep canadian forest we received in the last 50 years some very nice music performances for our blue planet ! Smile 
One of my favourite conductors and great Bruckner performer, Guenter Wandt, might have had some reservation onto a too much deferred interpretation of the master's work.... 
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