Listen "Beethoven's Symphony No 9 in D minor"
Episode Synopsis
Tom Service chooses his favourite recording of Beethoven's Symphony No 9 in D minor.Beethoven's final complete symphony is one of the summits of classical music. The famous final movement features four vocal soloists and a chorus in a setting of the "Ode to Joy" by Friedrich Schiller. Many of the world's greatest conductors and orchestras have tackled this musical Everest including Furtwangler, Toscanini and Karajan alongside conductors of later generations like Mackerras and Harnoncourt and it still inspires new recordings from today's performers.
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