Beethoven 9 WP Szell - Live 1969

BEETHOVEN
Symphony No.9 in D minor, op.125

Gundula Janowitz
Meriel Dickinson
Ernst Haefliger
Walter Berry

Chor der Wiener Singakademie
Wiener Philharmoniker
GEORGE SZELL

Live - Musikverein, Wien
June 22, 1969


Apart from the famous studio Recording in Severance Hall (1961),
another performance by Szell (live in London, 1968) is available on a BBC Legends double CD:
here is the only other known recording of this symphony by Szell.

Ok, maybe it's not essential to have another version of the Ninth,
but I like it for many reasons.
It is meticulous in a very "Szellian way"
(1st mov: extremely well shaped and not too fast;
on the contrary the adagio is not too slow)
and everything is "merged" with the inimitable WP timbre.


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