Mitterer: Nine In One

Mitterer, Wolfgang; Kuhn, Gustav; L'Orchestra Haydn di Bolzano e Trento

All the themes from all of Beethoven’s symphonies, played live by an orchestra, concentrated into one hour and supplemented with electronics – that’s Nine in One. Or: a wild rollercoaster ride through the twists and turns of Ludwig van Beethoven’s brain. In the front carriage: Wolfgang Mitterer. He has a reputation; as a musician many times he’s tormented the big concert organs of the continent in unusual ways, as well as composed for important orchestras, ensembles and opera houses, rocked it in jazz clubs or written film music in his studio in Vienna. Off we go! Radial acceleration. Centrifugal force. Looping. The whole programme. And then what makes riding the rollercoaster so much fun suddenly happens: we can’t feel our own mass anymore, and we experience a moment of weightlessness. A similar condition may also appear after listening to this album. But what’s certain is that from this point onwards, you hear the “New Testament” of music, as Beethoven’s symphonies are also known, in a completely new way.

Price: $34.98