Beethoven: The Collector's Edition [50-CD Box Set]
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Performer: Serge CollotPerformer: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven
Conductor: André Cluytens
Conductor: Michael Schønwandt
Conductor: Andre Vandernoot
Conductor: Ferdinand Leitner
Conductor: Leopold Ludwig
Conductor: Malcolm Sargent
Conductor: Alexander Gibson
Conductor: Volker Wangenheim
Conductor: Carlo Maria Giulini
Conductor: Herbert von Karajan
Conductor: Heinz Wallberg
Performer: Trio Hongrois
Performer: Trio à Cordes Français
Performer: Melos Ensemble of London
Performer: Janet Baker
Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Orchestra: Berlin Symphony Orchestra
Edition: Music CD
Format: Box set, Import
CD Release Date: 2007-06-26
Music Label: EMI Classics France
Music reviews of Beethoven: The Collector's Edition [50-CD Box Set]
Music Review: A Fine Box of French Beethoven
Rating: 5 Stars
Most of the material in this box hasn't been re-issued much in the United States. It is
mainly French EMI productions -- Cluytens/Berlin for the symphonies (around the time of the Karajan/Berlin recordings), Eric Heidsieck in the sonatas (recordings made from 1970 to 74, shortly after he had performed them all from memory in Paris, where the reviews were rapturous as I recall), Ferras in the violin sonatas, the wonderful Tortelier in the cello sonatas. The Oistrakh/Cluytens Beethoven violin concerto was one of my first classical purchases, 45 years ago. The Gilels/Vandernoot versions of the first two concertos disappeared long ago. It was for this French Beethoven tradition that I decided to buy this box before the new Brilliant set, with its less focused selection of performers (and more complete package with 85 cds).
The Hungarian Quartet's complete set, a Paris recording, was familiar from Seraphim lps. The Hungarian Trio, also a French production, was new to me, and fine.
The rest of the recordings -- Giulini (Missa), the Karajan FIDELIO -- were more familiar.
There is a sparse booklet, with only a list of the works and movements, disk by disk, and copyright dates. The packaging is poorly thought out, but can be managed with some reinforcement. This is my only complaint.
Each Western nation has its own tradition of music-making, its own group of revered performers, its own stylistic preferences. Here are the performers whom the French admired in the days before globalized marketing. At the price of just over a dollar per cd, this is a true bargain. Anyone can prefer to hear Beethoven played differently, but this is, at least in part, a picture of a distinct musical culture at a moment in time, the fifteen years from 1959 to 1974.
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