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| Label Challenge Classics |
UPC 0608917253320 |
Catalogue number CC 72533 |
Release date 30 January 2012 |
"don't miss de Vriend"
Gramophone, 01-10-2012Het indrukwekkende laatste deel uit de serie met alle Symfonieën van Beethoven
Dit is het vijfde en laatste album uit de serie van Jan Willem de Vriend met opnames van alle Symfonieën van Beethoven. Met elk album uit deze serie geeft De Vriend een frisse interpretatie van Beethoven.
Het is een opname vol energie, waarin elke noot met een sprankelende intensiteit gespeeld wordt. De interpretatie van de muziek is ingebed in grondig musicologisch onderzoek en de kennis van de periode waarin Beethoven leefde.
De composities van Beethoven zullen mensen altijd blijven fascineren. Of hij nou geliefd, bewonderd, bekritiseerd of vreselijk gevonden wordt, vriend en vijand moeten toegeven dat hij een belangrijke rol in de muziekgeschiedenis speelde. Ook nu kunnen luisteraars niet anders dan toegeven dat zijn muziek meesterlijk is, vooral wanneer het om de Negende Symfonie gaat.
Dirigent Jan Willem de Vriend is inmiddels wereldberoemd. Hij wordt steeds bekender als dirigent van symfonische werken, een rol die uitstekend bij hem past.
De Vriend denkt niet dat hij klaar is met Beethoven nu hij al zijn symfonieën heeft opgenomen. Hij zal altijd over ze nadenken, hun partituren analyseren, en proberen om het karakter van het tijdperk waarin ze zijn gecomponeerd inzichtelijk te krijgen. Nee, we zijn nooit klaar met Beethoven!
Jan Willem de Vriend is the artistic director of Combattimento Consort Amsterdam and since 2006 the chief conductor and artistic director of the NetherlandsSymphony Orchestra.
Combattimento Consort Amsterdam devotes itself to the music of about 1600 to 1830. Since its founding in 1982, it has performed virtually throughout the world as well as on many CDs, DVDs and television productions.
Since De Vriend was named chief conductor in 2006, the Netherlands Symphony Orchestra has become a notable phenomenon on the Netherlands’ musical scene. It has presented semi-scenic performances of works by Mozart, Beethoven, Strauss and Mendelssohn. There were premieres of works by Offenbach, Say and Mahler. And by substituting historical instruments in the brass section, it has developed its own distinctive sound in the 18th- and 19th-century repertoire. Recently, the orchestra performed music by Schumann at festivals in Spain. The release of Beethoven’s complete symphonies, conducted by De Vriend, is a big project which starts with the release of this current CD. Also the orchestra's long Mahler tradition is being continued in recordings and tours.
De Vriend has been a guest conductor with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, the Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic, the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, The Hague Philharmonic and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, as well as orchestras in Germany, Sweden and Australia. He is often invited to conduct both in the Netherlands and abroad. He has engagements pending, for example, with The Hague Philharmonic, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra as well as orchestras in China, Germany, Austria and Italy.
The Netherlands Symphony Orchestra is an orchestra with passion, commitment and virtuosity. The orchestra serves the province of Overijssel with concert series in Enschede, Hengelo, Zwolle and Deventer. Another important role for the orchestra is accompanying De Nationale Reisopera andprovincial choral societies. Working with top musicians from all over the world has contributed towards the orchestra achieving its aim of bringing concerts of the highest quality to a broad public. Important conductors for the orchestra were Ed Spanjaard, Rudolf Barshai, Martin Panteleev, Mark Shanahan, Vasili Petrenko and Otto Tausk. Jaap Van Zweden made an indelible impression during his period as chief conductor and set the orchestra well and truly on the map. He will return frequently as guest conductor. Many great international soloists have worked with the orchestra – Gidon Kremer, Natalia Gutman, Heinrich Schiff, Jean-Yves Thibaudet and Charlotte Margiono to name a few.
don't miss de Vriend
Gramophone, 01-10-2012
The DSD recording sounds very open and natural, with lots of clear, clean detail.
Hi-Fi Choice, 01-10-2012
Beethoven Bliss
BBC Music Magazine, 01-7-2012
the result is a performance of this masterpiece of which he has its full measure
International Record Review, 01-7-2012
Recording of the month
This is a tremendous and remarkably revealing performance of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9, and with the added bonus of SACD surround sound it is also a genuinely spectacular sonic experience.
Music Web International, 01-6-2012
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