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Luis Afonso wrote:
>Just saw it last week in the record shop. Has anyone heard it? Is it good?
>Comments, please.
Another list member and I enthusiastically posted on this recording a
couple of weeks ago.
Herreweghe breathes new life into it - the new life being the old. -
Very HIP. "Herreweghe has tried to capture the form and the spirit of
the visionary work as it would have been heard on a certain day in May
1824" (liner notes).The passion and intensity are still there, but he has
taken away the overpowering grandeur and solemn pomposity it had acquired.
Joy is back. The tempi respect Beethoven's precise indications, with some
refreshing surprises. Great sound. Amazing tone-colours in the percussion
and bass line. He recorded it in just about the best hall we have in
France (specialists say) for sound - the Arsenal in Metz. The recording
is clear, spatial ... Bell-like on the sopranos, soft and clear on the
gutty mellow strings and on the woodwind.
HMC 901687 Herreweghe, the Orchestre des Champs-Elysees, La Chapelle Royale
Collegium Vocale.
Christine Labroche
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