{"product_id":"schuricht-beethoven-symphonies-volume-two-paris-195758-pasc697","title":"SCHURICHT Beethoven Symphonies Volume Two (Paris, 1957\/58) - PASC697","description":"overviewfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eBEETHOVEN \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eSymphony No. 2\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eBEETHOVEN \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eSymphony No. 3 'Eroica'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eStudio recordings, 1957 \u0026amp; 1958\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eTotal duration: 79:10\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eOrchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003econducted by \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eCarl Schuricht\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_titlefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_quotefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_bodyfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9main_samplefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fsamples\/PASC697.mp3578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_labelfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fProducer's Note578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_typefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fcontent578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_contentfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp\u003eCarl Schuricht’s late-fifties Paris Conservatoire Beethoven symphony\ncycle is perhaps one of the more unusual recordings both of its era and,\nmore generally, of Beethoven cycles. To begin with there is the\nquestion of the recordings themselves. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMade in the Salle Wagram\nin Paris between 1957 and 1959 at a time when just about everyone was\nembracing the idea of stereo in classical music recordings, the\nSchuricht series was made and released in defiant mono. Or was it? For\nmany years this appeared to be the case – certainly the vinyl releases\nat the time were all mono, and often very competitively priced – in the\nUK at least. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen EMI reissued the complete cycle in the late\n1980s, once again the nine symphonies were released in mono. It was not\nuntil the 21st century that a stereo recording from this set emerged, in\nthe shape of the Ninth ‘Choral’ Symphony – why this had been \noverlooked for so many years is hard to understand. Nevertheless the\nrest of the series remains mono or – in the case of these Pristine XR\nremasters – with a very pleasing Ambient Stereo ambience.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat\nwas also unusual was the French orchestra, which to some contemporary\nears outside of the country sounded all wrong: for some it was the\nplaying style, for others the sound of some rather unique instruments in\nthe brass and woodwind were off-putting. But in the fullness of time\nopinions have been revised and some have come around to the view that\nthis is a very special Beethoven cycle indeed:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"margin-left: 25px;\"\u003e“My\nimmediate impression was that I had never heard Beethoven conducted in\nquite this way. That is not the same as saying I had never heard\nBeethoven played this way. By certain string quartets, for example. I\nwas reminded of Serkin playing the piano sonatas, even more, perhaps, of\nlate Backhaus. The first symphony immediately created an impression of\ngut conviction and great vitality. As with late Backhaus, technical\nperfection is not an essential, phrasing can be a bit rough and\nbreathless, but you get a sense of contact with the music that you more\noften get from hands-on performers than from conductors whose vision has\nto be realised by others: namely the orchestra. This generally\ntranslates into brisk, spinning tempi that are not driven, or goaded\nonward, by a conductor with a whip, but have a vitality that seems to\narise from the music. In the second movement of this same symphony there\nis a warm songfulness rather than an attempt to wrest a prayer for\nhumanity from every phrase. It is here, too, that the French woodwind\nare at their most piquant.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI must record a curious sensation over\nthis. While it is true that the Historically Informed brigade would run\na mile from such vibrato, modern performances on period-style\ninstruments have rediscovered a factor which was still available in\nParis in the 1950s. Each instrument has its own personality, makes its\nown contribution to the argument, instead of being blended so that the\nwind band might as well be a harmonium. With the wind forwardly balanced\ninto the bargain, these performances contain elements that were\nscarcely heard again until the HIP movement got going two decades later.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis\nsense of vital contact with the music crescendos through the first\nthree symphonies. The “Eroica” slow movement is an interesting case.\nSchuricht starts out at a fairly flowing, but expressive tempo. Most\nconductors start slower, but have to move forward later. Schuricht holds\nhis tempo, but not in the sense of dogmatically ploughing on\nregardless. He simply doesn’t seem to find it necessary to make any\nadjustment, for his tempo fits every part of the movement beautifully.\nThe proof of this is heard as the initial march theme returns after the\nclimax and sails in without the conductor having to put on the brakes.\nThe final disintegration has rarely been so moving – it emerges so\ninevitably from what came before. In spite of a not very slow initial\ntempo this is one of the longer versions on record: at 15:40 it is\nexceeded by Toscanini’s 16:06 in 1939 but is expansive compared with\nKlemperer’s 14:43 in 1956 – and no, I haven’t got these the wrong way\nround…\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e…The time has now come to take it seriously. Heaven forbid\nthat any critic should recommend a “best version” of such multifarious\nworks, or even a “best version” of each single symphony. We can try to\ndistinguish between the ones that count and those that don’t. This cycle\ncounts. It explores avenues of Beethoven interpretation, areas of\nBeethovenian truth, not touched upon elsewhere.” - Christopher Howell, \u003ci\u003eMusicWeb International\u003c\/i\u003e, 2013\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAndrew Rose\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_cover_thumbnail1_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_cover_thumbnail2_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_cover_download_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample1_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample2_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample3_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample4_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample5_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample6_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_labelfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fFull Track Listing578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_typefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5ftrack_listing578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_contentfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 24px;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eSCHURICHT \u003c\/b\u003eBeethoven Symphonies Volume Two\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eBEETHOVEN  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eSymphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 36\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. 1st mvt. - Adagio molto - Allegro con brio  (10:00)\u003cbr\u003e2. 2nd mvt. - Larghetto  (12:06)\u003cbr\u003e3.3rd mvt. - Scherzo. Allegro - Trio  (3:21)\u003cbr\u003e4. 4th mvt. - Allegro molto  (6:57)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eRecorded 26 \u0026amp; 27 September, 1958\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eBEETHOVEN  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eSymphony No. 3 in E flat major, Op. 55, 'Eroica'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e5. 1st mvt. - Allegro con brio  (14:15)\u003cbr\u003e6. 2nd mvt. - Marcia funebre. Adagio assai  (15:46)\u003cbr\u003e7. 3rd mvt. - Scherzo. Allegro vivace - Trio  (5:36)\u003cbr\u003e8. 4th mvt. - Finale. 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