Beethoven: 9 Symphonies - O Mensch, Gib Acht! (2015)

This box set is a compilation of the individual Beethoven symphonies releases by the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal and conductor Kent Nagano, recorded live between 2007 and 2014 at a pair of venues, the Maison Symphonique de Montréal and the Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier at Montreal's Place des Arts. Those spaces differ in their acoustics, and in general the sound here is not a match for that achieved in concert by the top orchestra house labels in Britain and America. It's tempting to say that the box set brings out the ... Read More

This box set is a compilation of the individual Beethoven symphonies releases by the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal and conductor Kent Nagano, recorded live between 2007 and 2014 at a pair of venues, the Maison Symphonique de Montréal and the Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier at Montreal's Place des Arts. Those spaces differ in their acoustics, and in general the sound here is not a match for that achieved in concert by the top orchestra house labels in Britain and America. It's tempting to say that the box set brings out the worst in the individual versions while not emphasizing the good points. The set retains the thematic titles of the original recordings, for example "In the Breath of Time," which is somehow supposed to apply to the Symphony No. 6 in F major Op. 68 ("Pastoral"), the Symphony No. 8 in F major, Op. 93, and an orchestration of the Grosse Fuge in B flat major, Op. 133, all at once. The explanations by Nagano and a pair of other annotators do little to clarify these; individually they can be... Read Less

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