Archiv Produktion: 439 900-2 (439 901-2--439 905-2; 445 907-2).
Title from box.
Words of the last movement of the 9th symphony by Friedrich Schiller; sung in German.
Compact discs.
Program notes by Peter Czornyj, Nicholas Marston, Jonathan Del Mar, and Clive Brown, and text with English translation (40 p. : ill.) included.
Includes interview with John Eliot Gardiner, in English, German and French, with musical excerpts (6th disc).
Contents:
No. 1 in C major, op. 21 (25:00)
No. 2 in D major, op. 36 (34:00)
No. 3 in E-flat major, op. 55 : Eroica (45:00)
No. 4 in B-flat major, op. 60 (32:00)
No. 5 in C minor, op. 67 (32:00)
No. 6 in F major, op. 68 : Pastoral (41:00)
No. 7 in A major, op. 92 (39:00)
No. 8 in F major, op. 93 (25:00)
No. 9 in D minor, op. 125 (59:43).
Participant:
Orchestre révolutionnaire et romantique, on original instruments ; John Eliot Gardiner, conductor ; with, in the 9th symphony: Luba Orgonasova, soprano ; Anne Sofie von Otter, mezzo-soprano ; Anthony Rolfe Johnson, tenor ; Gilles Cachemaille, bass ; Monteverdi Choir.
Event:
Recorded Nov. 1991, Great Hall, Blackheath Concert Halls, London (no. 2); Oct. 1992, All Saints' Church, Tooting, London (no. 6 and 9); Mar. 1993, Maltings Concert Hall, Snape (no. 1 and 3; live recordings); Dec. 1992 (no. 7-8) and Mar. 1993 (no. 4), All Hallows Gospel Oak, London; and Mar. 1994, Palau de la Música, Barcelona (no. 5; live recording).