Marriner: Beethoven

15 April 2024 marks the centenary of the birth of Sir Neville Marriner, widely considered to have the most extensive discography of any single musician. Known and celebrated for his recordings of Baroque music and of Mozart, Marriner also made highly-desired recordings of Beethoven with 'his' Academy of St. Martin in the Fields - a chapter in his recorded history being gathered together for the first time. In September 1970 he set down recordings of Beethoven's first two symphonies for Philips. One more symphony, No. 4, coupled with a string-orchestra transcription of the 'Grosse Fuge' was set down in December 1974. Perhaps a complete Beethoven symphony cycle was never envisaged at the time, for it wasn't until the 1980s that recordings of Beethoven symphonies gathered momentum, starting with the 'Eroica' in 1982 and concluding with the Ninth in April 1989. Two recordings of the Violin Concerto were also made: with long-standing leader of the Academy, Iona Brown (herself also a conductor) in January 1980 for Argo, and quite surprisingly, again in December that year with Gidon Kremer for Philips, who incorporated two of the Schnittke cadenzas into his performance. These were rounded out with a disc of a selection of charming Minuets, German Dances and Contredanses, also for Philips, in 1978.

Disc 1
1: 1. Adagio molto - Allegro con brio
2: 2. Andante cantabile con moto
3: 3. Menuetto (Allegro molto e vivace)
4: 4. Finale (Adagio - Allegro molto e vivace)
5: 1. Adagio molto - Allegro con brio
6: 2. Larghetto
7: 3. Scherzo (Allegro)
8: 4. Allegro molto

Disc 2
1: 1. Allegro con brio
2: 2. Marcia funebre (Adagio assai)
3: 3. Scherzo (Allegro vivace)
4: 4. Finale (Allegro molto)

Disc 3
1: 1. Adagio - Allegro vivace
2: 2. Adagio
3: 3. Allegro vivace
4: 4. Allegro ma non troppo
5: Grosse Fuge in B flat, Op.133 - Orchestral Version

Disc 4
1: 1. Allegro con brio
2: 2. Andante con moto
3: 3. Allegro
4: 4. Allegro
5: 1. Allegro vivace e con brio
6: 2. Allegretto scherzando
7: 3. Tempo di menuetto
8: 4. Allegro vivace

Disc 5
1: 1. Erwachen heiterer Empfindungen bei der Ankunft auf dem Lande: Allegro ma non troppo
2: 2. Szene am Bach: (Andante molto mosso)
3: 3. Lustiges Zusammensein der Landleute (Allegro)
4: 4. Gewitter, Sturm (Allegro)
5: 5. Hirtengesang. Frohe und dankbare Gefühle nach dem Sturm: Allegretto
6: Overture "The Consecration of the House", Op.124

Disc 6
1: 1. Poco sostenuto - Vivace
2: 2. Allegretto
3: 3. Presto - Assai meno presto
4: 4. Allegro con brio
5: 1. Battle
6: 2. Symphony of Triumph

Disc 7
1: 1. Allegro ma non troppo, un poco maestoso
2: 2. Molto vivace
3: 3. Adagio molto e cantabile
4: Presto - "O Freunde nicht diese Töne" -
5: Allegro assai - Alla marcia (Allegro vivace assai) - Andante maestoso - Allegro energico, sempre ben marcato - Allegro ma non tanto

Disc 8
1: 1. Allegro ma non troppo
2: 2. Larghetto -
3: 3. Rondo (Allegro)

Disc 9
1: 1. Allegro ma non troppo
2: 2. Larghetto -
3: 3. Rondo (Allegro)

Disc 10
1: No. 1
2: No. 2
3: No. 3
4: No. 4
5: No. 5
6: No. 6
7: No. 7
8: No. 8
9: No. 9
10: No. 10
11: No. 11
12: No. 12
13: No. 1
14: No. 2
15: No. 3
16: No. 4
17: No. 5
18: No. 6
19: No. 7
20: No. 8
21: No. 9
22: No. 10
23: No. 11
24: No. 12
25: No. 1
26: No. 2
27: No. 3
28: No. 4
29: No. 5
30: No. 6
31: No. 7
32: No. 8
33: No. 9
34: No. 10
35: No. 11
36: No. 12

Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

Conductor: Neville Marriner

Number of Discs: 10

Orchestra: Academy of St. Martin in the Fields

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