“I waited a very long time to record the Beethoven symphonies,” said Daniel Barenboim when this cycle was first released in 2000.
“I waited for the music to mature in me – or me in it – and to find an orchestra that not only did what I asked it to do, but which really felt every detail in the music exactly as I did at the moment we were playing it… This is the greatest joy that a conductor can have.”
Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 1-9
Soile Isokoski (soprano), Rosemarie Lang (contralto), Robert Gambill (tenor), Rene Pape (bass)
Staatskapelle Berlin, Chor der Deutschen Staatsoper Berlin, Daniel Barenboim
Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 in C major, Op. 21
Beethoven: Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 36
Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, Op. 55 ‘Eroica’
Beethoven: Symphony No. 4 in B flat major, Op. 60
Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67
Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68 ‘Pastoral’
Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92
Beethoven: Symphony No. 8 in F major, Op. 93
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 ‘Choral’