Tag: Gerald Finley
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Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 – Haitink, London Symphony Orchestra
“the slow third movement… moves along at a pace few conductors would have employed fifty years ago. Yet it never sounds hurried, and the dramatic brass interruptions towards its close have an appropriately apocalyptic ring. The extraordinarily vivid recording, in which the basses are caught to stupendous effect – especially in their passages of recitative…
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Beethoven: Mass in C, Finale from Symphony No. 9 – soloists, Sir Colin Davis, LSC, LSO
Colin Davis leads a superb quartet of soloists and brings out all the humanity and tenderness of the music with his customary skill. The LSO Chorus responds brilliantly’ (Classic FM) ‘Colin Davis who meets the work on its own particular ground with such imagination and style in this version. The great fugal perorations are crisper…