Beethoven: Symphony #3 / Bruggen
Label: ARTHAUS Catalog: 109117 Format: DVD The Dutch conductor and recorder player Frans Brüggen, who died in 2014, based the structure of his fifty-plus member Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century, specialists in the music of that era, upon the famous ‘luxury’ orchestras that flourished in Mannheim, Paris and Vienna in the 18th c. + This rendition of Beethoven’s Third Symphony, the “Eroica”, recorded live at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, won them international acclaim. + “Whether surrounded by an orchestra or alone with only his recorder, [Bruggen] could hold an audience spellbound as he transported them towards the 18th c.” (The Telegraph) Price: $25.98 |