{"product_id":"otterloo-beethoven-symphony-no-9-1952-pasc437","title":"OTTERLOO Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 (1952) - PASC437","description":"overviewfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cspan data_liveedit_tagid=\"000000000D770D90\"\u003e\u003cspan data_liveedit_tagid=\"000000000D770EC0\"\u003e\u003cspan data_liveedit_tagid=\"000000000D770FF0\"\u003e\u003cspan data_liveedit_tagid=\"000000000D771840\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eBEETHOVEN\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003e Symphony No. 9\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan data_liveedit_tagid=\"000000000D770D90\"\u003e\u003cspan data_liveedit_tagid=\"000000000D770EC0\"\u003e\u003cspan data_liveedit_tagid=\"000000000D770FF0\"\u003e\u003cspan data_liveedit_tagid=\"000000000D771840\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data_liveedit_tagid=\"000000000D772E90\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bodysmallarial\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eStudio recording, 1952\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eTotal duration: 66:29  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eErna Spoorenberg\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003e (soprano)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eMaria von Ilosvay\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003e (contralto)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eFrans Kroons\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003e (tenor)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eHermann Schey \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003e(bass)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eAmsterdam Toonkunst Choir\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eResidentie Orkest den Haag\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eWillem van Otterloo,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003e conductor\n\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cdiv data_liveedit_tagid=\"000000000D775340\" style=\"padding-left: 120px\"\u003e\u003cspan data_liveedit_tagid=\"000000000D775470\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_titlefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fFanfare Review578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_quotefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fThe playing is masterful ... It deserves to be heard again578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_bodyfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp class=\"B\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"TIMES\"\u003eThis recording of Beethoven Nine was\ndragged up from the depths of bad pressings and failed CDs. Andrew Rose\nat Pristine has reconstituted it and given it new life. The recording is\nin relatively good condition, and the playing is masterful. It’s a good\naddition to the Beethoven Nine canon. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"B\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"TIMES\"\u003eIn the disc booklet, an old review is attached. A “T. H.” from \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"TIMESi\"\u003eGramophone\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"TIMES\"\u003e\nsays “plenty of bass”: and Mr. T. H. is right. It’s a really thudding,\nbottom-heavy Beethoven, with great booming echoes, particularly after\nthe bass interjections of the first movement. Some detail in the upper\nwoodwind is inevitably lost, but it’s a pay-off I’m willing to have, for\nthe sake of the menacing lower registers. The climaxes are a little\ncheesy, with huge sweeps of volume and heavy punches on the timpani, but\nthis alleviates in the second movement with the delicate string melody\nthat famously opens it. The timpani grows annoying after a while, and\nthe booming lower end becomes distracting (my speakers were muffling and\nbouncing away even in the delicate bits). Where the microphones must\nhave been placed, for this effect, I dread to think. However, the\neditors of the mix have done well to try and retain its heavy energy and\ncoax the upper registers into being audible. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"B\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"TIMES\"\u003eThe second movement, for me, is the\nbest. The choral movement, by contrast, is a nightmare, and Mr.\nGramophone noticed this too: the “slight sense of sharpness” noticed in\n1955 is still here, and the near shouting of the vocals grates a little.\nWho, though, doesn’t love “Ode to Joy”? It’s a competent rendering of\nit, though obviously weighed down a little by its cliché status. The\nviolin entry, for instance, is toe-curlingly clichéd: a Romantic swish\nthat doesn’t sit comfortably on the otherwise intense lower strings.\nHowever, the second movement is daringly quick in places, despite a slow\nstart, and Otterloo doesn’t manipulate the dynamics like Barenboim or\nChailly. It’s less disciplined, but also less assertive, which is\nrefreshing. I much prefer Barenboim’s, which is tighter, more energetic,\nand full of scholarly focus. However, this is more fun, and with the\nbassy mix gets a new face. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"Br\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"TIMES\"\u003eIn all, a fun way to receive\nBeethoven, and a good addition to one’s Beethoven Nine recordings. It is\nno Barenboim, but what is? And, congratulations to the editors of this\naddition for rescuing it from the depths of forgotten recordings. It\ndeserves to be heard again. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"TIMESb\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eDan Sperrin\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThis article originally appeared in Issue 38:6 (July\/Aug 2015) of Fanfare Magazine.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9main_samplefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fsamples\/PASC437.mp3578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_labelfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fProducer's Note578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_typefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fcontent578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_contentfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eWillem van Otterloo's brilliant 1952 Beethoven Ninth\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"center\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"The recording is in relatively good condition, and the playing is masterful\" - Fanfare\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 1952 Amsterdam recording was suggested to me in an e-mail I\nreceived a month or so ago: \"I'm sure you get lots of folks saying to\nyou why dont you get hold of such and such a record and work your magic\non it. Here's my suggestion: A Philips LP of Beethoven 9 with The Hague\nPhiharmonic under Van Otterloo ...  I dont think it was that great a\nrecording technically in the first place, but at the time I had the\nchoice between it and the Vox Horenstein...I heard both before\nbuying...and found it even more satisfying...\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWell the good news is that, underneath some very average pressings\nand somewhat constricted sound lurks a real gem, sonically- and\nmusically-speaking. It really was very well captured indeed, and despite\nbring let down at the time by technical inadequacies in the microphone\ndepartment, XR remastering has delivered a sound that's vital, full,\nclear, immediate and, where it matters, entirely thrilling!   \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAndrew 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Listing578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_typefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5ftrack_listing578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_contentfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eBEETHOVEN  \u003c\/b\u003eSymphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 \"Choral\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bodybigblue\" style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bodymidarial\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRecorded 3-4 May, 1952, Concertgebouw, Amsterdam\u003cbr\u003eOriginally released in the UK as Philips ABL 3030-31\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eErna Spoorenberg\u003c\/b\u003e, soprano\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMaria von Ilosvay\u003c\/b\u003e, contralto\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrans Kroons\u003c\/b\u003e, tenor\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHermann 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