Great credit must go to the engineers at THS Studio Holger Seidler and Profil for their brilliant restoration of Karl Böhm's 1941 Electrola recording of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 in D minor, "Choral," with the Dresden Staatskapelle. But make no mistake: this is a historic recording with many apparent sound problems; and for all the cleaning of surface noises, precise editing of the shellac discs (no less than 17 sides!), and reasonable boosting of volume levels where needed, this still sounds like an old recording and ...
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Great credit must go to the engineers at THS Studio Holger Seidler and Profil for their brilliant restoration of Karl Böhm's 1941 Electrola recording of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 in D minor, "Choral," with the Dresden Staatskapelle. But make no mistake: this is a historic recording with many apparent sound problems; and for all the cleaning of surface noises, precise editing of the shellac discs (no less than 17 sides!), and reasonable boosting of volume levels where needed, this still sounds like an old recording and quite far from the clear sound and depth of contemporary CDs. Historians and collectors of vintage records will be thoroughly impressed with the exciting performance, which is remarkably brisk and vigorous for its time, and they will find that the details in the inner parts are fully audible in Böhm's transparent interpretation. They will also note with pleasure the lack of bombast in the Ode to Joy. The quartet of vocalists -- soprano Margarete Teschemacher, alto Elisabeth Höngen, tenor...
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Add this copy of Symphony 9 in D Minor Op 125 to cart. $16.01, like new condition, Sold by Streetlight_Records rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Santa Cruz, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2006 by Profil.
Add this copy of Symphony 9 in D Minor Op 125 to cart. $29.82, new condition, Sold by Music Fiendz rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from South Hackensack, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 2006 by Profil.
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