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Ludwig van Beethoven CDs in mp3

Nine Symphonies

Ludwig van Beethoven info

Freude heißt die starke Feder In der ewigen Natur. Freude, Freude treibt die Räder In der Großen Weltenuhr. Blumen lockt sie aus den Keimen, Sonnen aus dem Firmament, Sphären rollt sie in den Räumen, Die des Sehers Rohr nicht kennt.

Joy is called the strong spring In the perpetuity of nature. Joy, joy drives the wheels In the earth’s great clock. Flowers, she calls from the buds, Suns, out of the firmament, Spheres, she rolls through space That the seer cannot know.

From Schiller’s Ode to Joy

The NSDAP used Beethoven’s music extensively and Furtwangler would conduct the Ninth for Hitler’s birthday and other special occasions. Performances of Beethoven symphonies were broadcast live on German radio to the soldiers in the field and to civilians in the bombed cities.

Personally I would say that the Beethoven symphonies communicate and celebrate in the lofty language of music the humanity of everything that National Socialism stands for. The heart, if basically healthy and properly educated, can instruct the mind too. The Ninth in particular evokes for me the spirit of the German soldiers and it is ironic that the EU should have adopted the choral part of the finale as its own anthem.

Sinfonie Nr. 1 – First Symphony (op. 21, in C major) info

Eugen Duvier conducts Norddeutsche Philharmonie

1 - Adagion molto

2 - Andante cantabile con moto

3 – Minuetto - Allegro molto e vivace

4 - Finale adagio

Sinfonie Nr. 2 – Second Symphony (op. 36, in D major) info

Hanspeter Gmur conducts Suddeutsche Philharmonie

1 - Adagio molto - Allegro con brio

2 - Larghetto

3 - Scherzo - Allegro

4 - Allegro molto

Sinfonie Nr. 3 – Third Symphony (op. 55, in E flat major, “Eroica”) info

Zdenek Kosler conducts Slowakische Philharmonie

1 - Allegro con brio

2 - Marcia funebre - Adagio assai

3 – Scherzo - Allegro vivace

4 – Finale - Allegro molto

Sinfonie Nr. 4 – Fourth Symphony (op. 60, in B flat major) info

Anton Nanut conducts Radio Sinfonie Orchester Ljubljana

1 - Adagio - Allegro vivace

2 - Adagio

3 - Allegro vivace

4 - Allegro ma non troppo

Sinfonie Nr. 5 – Fifth Symphony (op. 67, in C minor) info

Anton Nanut conducts Radio Sinfonie Orchester Ljubljana

1 - Allegro con brio

2 - Andante con moto

3 - Allegro - Allegro attacca

Sinfonie Nr. 6 – Sixth Symphony (op. 68, in F major, “Pastoral”) info

Eduard Lindenberg conducts Orchester der Wiener Volksoper

1 - Allegro

2 - Andante

3 – Allegro – Allegro - Allegretto

Sinfonie Nr. 7 – Seventh Symphony (op. 92, in A major) info

Gunter Neidlinger conducts Suddeutsche Philharmonie

1 - Poco sostenuto

2 - Allegretto

3 - Presto

4 - Allegro con brio

Sinfonie Nr. 8 – Eighth Symphony (op. 93, in F major) info

Gunter Neidlinger conducts Suddeutsche Philharmonie

1 - Allegro

2 - Allegretto scherzando

3 - Tempo di menuetto

4 - Allegro vivace

Sinfonie Nr. 9 – Ninth Symphony (op. 125, in D minor, “Choral”) info

Eugen Duvier conducts Slowakische Philharmonie

1 - Allegro ma non troppo

2 - Molto vivace

3 - Adagio molto e cantabile

4 - Presto - Allegro assai - Recitative - Allegro assai

See also: Furtwangler conducts Beethoven

Furtwangler conducts Beethoven’s Ninth for Hitler’s birthday in 1942