Arthur Nikisch was one among a very small fraternity of nineteenth century conductors who made records, although Toscanini and Felix Weingartner -- both of whom made many recordings, including complete Beethoven symphony cycles -- also belong to that fraternity. Nikisch died in 1922, slightly before the introduction of the microphone that made orchestral recordings more practical, faithful, and numerous. Nikisch's 1913 recording of the Beethoven Symphony No. 5 in C minor Op. 67, made with the Berlin Philharmonic, is a ...
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Arthur Nikisch was one among a very small fraternity of nineteenth century conductors who made records, although Toscanini and Felix Weingartner -- both of whom made many recordings, including complete Beethoven symphony cycles -- also belong to that fraternity. Nikisch died in 1922, slightly before the introduction of the microphone that made orchestral recordings more practical, faithful, and numerous. Nikisch's 1913 recording of the Beethoven Symphony No. 5 in C minor Op. 67, made with the Berlin Philharmonic, is a milestone in the history of recording as it is the first complete symphony on records, and one of only a few acoustically made symphonic recordings that transits something of the interpretive preferences of the conductor. It has been reissued, or anthologized, numerous times stretching back to an LP issue made in the early '70s.For some reason, most reissues of this particular Beethoven set are particularly noisy, even those marketed by Deutsche Grammophon, the successor to the company...
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