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Label:
   Channel Classics - http://www.channelclassics.com/
Serial:
   CCS SA 25207
Title:
   Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 - Fischer
Description:
   Beethoven: Symphony No. 7, Rossini: Overture to "Italiana in Algeri", Weber: Concerto for Clarinet in F minor (2nd movement), Wilms: Symphony Op. 23 (4th movement)

Budapest Festival Orchestra
Ivan Fischer (conductor)
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Genre:
   Classical - Orchestral
Content:
   Stereo/Multichannel
Media:
   Hybrid
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Review by JJ May 20, 2008 (4 of 4 found this review helpful)
Performance:  Sonics (S/MC): /
By uniting four composers from the same era, conductor Ivan Fischer demonstrates that around the time of Beethoven’s Symphony N°7 other works performed the same year are just as exciting. “Willelm Wilms”, says Fischer, “perpetuated the tradition of Hayden and Mozart while incorporating some innovative moments. His fourth symphony, composed a few years earlier, was published at the time that Beethoven was working on his masterpiece. The most popular composer of the period was undoubtedly Rossini. He created a vocal style that was completely new and that influenced a large number of other musicians. The nature of the slow movement of the Concerto for Clarinet by Weber, for example, is closer to opera than instrumental music.” Ivan Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra, by their communicative passion, give this atypical recording a unique character that is both fascinating and jubilatory. Everything here is about sonic euphoria, mirroring a seventh symphony that is grandiose and thrilling. In a pure DSD recording essential to the listening experience, this Super Audio CD will delight curious music lovers as much as demanding audiophiles.

Jean-Jacques Millo
Translation Lawrence Schulman

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