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Complete Symphonies & Concertos (box set)
Ludwig van Beethoven

Complete Symphonies & Concertos (box set)

The Netherlands Symphony Orchestra / Jan Willem de Vriend

Label: Challenge Classics
Format: CD
Barcode: 0608917285628
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Catalog number: CC 72856
Releasedate: 09-10-20
- Challenge Classics unique contribution to 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth
- All Symphonies, all Concertos (for piano, for violin and the Triple concerto) are included
- A single conductor and a single orchestra for all the recorded works
- A single – and renowned – recording engineer and producer for the entire project
What you have in your hands is a box with which Challenge Classics intends to make its contribution to the celebrations for the 250th anniversary of the birth of Ludwig van Beethoven. It is a unique and completely original collection in the panorama of today’s discography, as it contains the complete corpus of the symphonies as well as all the works for (instrumental) soloist and orchestra, i.e. all the concertos. All the works recorded here are directed by a single conductor, Jan Willem de Vriend, at the head of a single orchestra, the Netherlands Symphony Orchestra. It becomes clear that this aspect provides a unity, an organic force and therefore an authority that other collections featuring different directors cannot boast. Finally, all the recordings presented here were curated by Bert van der Wolf of Northstar Recording, one of the classical scene’s most innovative and capable sound engineers.