Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 1-9 - Bernard Haitink - London Symphony Orchestra (6CD Box Set) [Hybrid SACD]

Posted By : CerealRipper | Date : 30 Mar 2009 09:06:41 | Comments : 39 |

"Haitink's integral set of Beethoven Symphonies with the London Symphony has none of the stodginess that sometimes afflicted his earlier recordings with the Concertgebouw. His restudy of the works, and the presence of concert audiences translate into faster tempos, sharper accents, wider dynamic range and an overall sense of energy that imbue these nine masterpieces. Here, the Classic style is wed to Romantic expressivity but not to Romantic excess, Competition is abundant, ranging from Toscanini, Furtwängler, and the 1963 von Karajan to recent sets from the sometimes hyperkinetic Vanska, the more traditional Abbado, and the insightful Barenboim. But this new Haitink set, available in hybrid SACD/CD, is a solid contender.
The early First and Second symphonies benefit from Haitink's leaner, more vivacious approach. The Eroica also sounds fresher. Its slow movement is still a funeral march, but moves a hair faster this time, just enough to be the difference between a pace that drags and a pace that flows and retains interest. In the outer movements, there’s a new spring to the rhythms and clarity in orchestral balances, and this Eroica has the cumulative intensity to make its full effect. Haitink's Fourth is in a grander mold than we usually hear. While never overblown, it has some of the wider scope and heroism of the odd-numbered symphonies. Like the Eroica, it is rhythmically vigorous and the prominent tympani and brass make an impact that sweeps the listener along. The Fifth can suffer from over-exposure but here it has a variety of tonal colors, tempos, and dynamics that make it seem newly minted while no less grand. The propulsive finale, with its pounding tympani and expertly played journey to transcendence, is especially memorable.

The Sixth, the Pastorale, has that same feeling, its flowing tempos and skillful interpretive choices make this one of the best Sixths since Böhm's, with plenty of excitement in the Storm and warmth in the final movement. The Seventh gets a buoyant reading, predominately lyrical without neglecting its powerful rhythms. The driven final movement is exhilarating without being hectic. The Eighth is often considered the slightest of the Nine but Haitink’s brisk tempos make it dance and swagger; the lyrical sections played with engaging warmth. As for the Ninth, it is miles ahead of Haitink's earlier versions. The harmonic mist that opens the work is well delineated, the contrasts within movements carefully marked, the Scherzo bursting with energy, the incomparable Adagio sings at a more fluid tempo, the choral final movement as good as any in the catalogue, its structure crystal clear under Haitink's baton. The major filler in the set is the often scorned Triple Concerto, which gets a performance of warm lyricism that can only elevate its status.

The playing of the London Symphony is phenomenal, especially since these are live recordings. The violins’ tone glows with radiance, their precise articulation helps make the rhythms energetic, the winds are uniformly excellent, the brass sleekly powerful, the potent percussion authoritative in climaxes. If a criticism can be made it would be that bass lines are sometimes weaker than desirable, perhaps a function of engineering that varies in clarity from disc to disc but is never less than good. In sum, a major addition to the Beethoven Symphony discography. --Dan Davis"

ALBUM
RELEASE DATE: Sep 12, 2006
LABEL: LSO
UPC: 82223115982
CATALOG: LSO0598
ARTIST: Bernard Haitink - London Symphony Orchestra
COMPOSER: Ludwig Van Beethoven
GENRE: Classical
# Discs: 6
# Tracks: 41
TOTAL RUNTIME: 6:37:23 hr

EXTRACTION
QUALITY: Lossless - FLAC (Highest Compression)
ENGINE: X Lossless Decoder / FLAC 1.2.1
ENCODE: FLAC Image + CUE + LOG
SAMPLE: 44.1 KHz/16 Bit
TAGGING: Basic tags + Embedded Cover (8KB Padding)
ALBUM SIZE: 1.51 GBs
TOTAL FILE SIZE: 1.68 GBs

TRACKS:
Symphony No.3 in Eb, Op.55 "Eroica": I. Allegro con brio - (1 of 6) - 17:50
Symphony No.3 in Eb, Op.55 "Eroica": II. Marcia funebre: Adagio assai - (1 of 6) - 14:22
Symphony No.3 in Eb, Op.55 "Eroica": III. Scherzo and Trio: Allegro vivace - (1 of 6) - 5:54
Symphony No.3 in Eb, Op.55 "Eroica": IV. Finale: Allegro molto - (1 of 6) - 11:07
Leonore Overture No.2 in C, Op.72a - (1 of 6) - 15:01
Symphony No.4 - I. Adagio - Allegro vivace - (2 of 6) - 11:19
Symphony No.4 - II. Adagio - (2 of 6) - 9:06
Symphony No.4 - III. Allegro vivace - (2 of 6) - 5:38
Symphony No.4 - IV. Allegro ma non troppo - (2 of 6) - 6:47
Symphony No.8 - I. Allegro vivace e con brio - (2 of 6) - 9:08
Symphony No.8 - II. Allegretto scherzando - (2 of 6) - 3:54
Symphony No.8 - III. Tempo di menuetto - (2 of 6) - 4:24
Symphony No.8 - IV. Allegro vivace - (2 of 6) - 7:25
Symphony No.5 - I. Allegro con brio - (3 of 6) - 7:35
Symphony No.5 - II. Andante con moto - (3 of 6) - 8:36
Symphony No.5 - III. Allegro - (3 of 6) - 4:54
Symphony No.5 - IV. Allegro - (3 of 6) - 10:18
Symphony No.1 - I. Adagio molto - Allegro con brio - (3 of 6) - 9:40
Symphony No.1 - II. Andante cantabile con moto - (3 of 6) - 6:52
Symphony No.1 - III. Menuetto & trio. Allegro molto e vivace - (3 of 6) - 3:19
Symphony No.1 - IV. Adagio - Allegro molto e vivace - (3 of 6) - 5:46
Symphony No.6 'Pastoral' - I. Erwachen heiterer Gefuhle bei der Ankunft auf dem Lande - (4 of 6) - 11:39
Symphony No.6 'Pastoral' - II. Szene am Bach - (4 of 6) - 11:48
Symphony No.6 'Pastoral' - III. Lustiges Zusammensein der Landleute - (4 of 6) - 4:59
Symphony No.6 'Pastoral' - IV. Gewitter, Sturm - (4 of 6) - 3:32
Symphony No.6 'Pastoral' - V. Hirtengesang - Frohe, dankbare Gefuhle nach dem Sturm - (4 of 6) - 9:37
Symphony No.2 - I. Adagio molto - Allegro con brio - (4 of 6) - 13:06
Symphony No.2 - II. Larghetto - (4 of 6) - 10:43
Symphony No.2 - III. Scherzo & Trio. Allegro - (4 of 6) - 4:00
Symphony No.2 - IV. Allegro molto - (4 of 6) - 6:39
Symphony No.7 in A, Op.92: I. Poco sostenuto - Vivace - (5 of 6) - 13:25
Symphony No.7 in A, Op.92: II. Allegretto - (5 of 6) - 7:41
Symphony No.7 in A, Op.92: III. Presto - (5 of 6) - 9:05
Symphony No.7 in A, Op.92: IV. Allegro con brio - (5 of 6) - 8:30
Triple Concerto in C, Op.56: I. Allegro - (5 of 6) - 17:40
Triple Concerto in C, Op.56: II. Largo - (5 of 6) - 5:01
Triple Concerto in C, Op.56: III. Rondo alla Polacca - (5 of 6) - 13:13
Symphony No 9 in D minor, Op.125 'Choral' - I Allegro ma non troppo, un poco maestoso - (6 of 6) - 15:36
Symphony No 9 in D minor, Op.125 'Choral' - II. Scherzo: Molto vivace - (6 of 6) - 13:50
Symphony No 9 in D minor, Op.125 'Choral' - III. Adagio molto e cantabile - (6 of 6) - 14:12
Symphony No 9 in D minor, Op.125 'Choral' - IV. Presto - Allegro ma non troppo - Vivace - Adagio canttabile - (6 of 6) - 24:33

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Posted By: jaime.silva Date: 30 Mar 2009 09:40:02

Thank you so much for this real pearl!

Posted By: wolfgang Date: 30 Mar 2009 10:09:13

Dear CerealRipper,
I don't think I can manage one more version of Beethoven Symphonies, but anyway I would like to express my thanks and my appreciation for the wonderful posting that you have been recently sharing here.

Posted By: velahsrab Date: 30 Mar 2009 10:46:59

10x. Bernard Haitink is the best.

Posted By: adclon Date: 30 Mar 2009 12:19:40

Great post, hope this doesn't mark the end of your netload links ;)

Posted By: whyav Date: 30 Mar 2009 13:05:35

There is a pdf file of the booklet on LSO website:
http://lso.co.uk/downloadables/recordings/upload/67-5.pdf

Posted By: otisred Date: 30 Mar 2009 16:11:53

Thanks a lot, grazie.

Posted By: CerealRipper Date: 30 Mar 2009 16:16:58

@whyav

It would have saved me soe trouble.

@adclon

As you see there is a new rule at Avax, if you want to up here you have to use rapidshare or megaupload...

I have been using rapidshare pretty much to annoy some specific people, but it seems it has become a rule anyway.

Posted By: Igone Date: 30 Mar 2009 18:50:22

Thank you very much

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I also thank you very much!

Posted By: guguplex Date: 30 Mar 2009 19:31:31

Absolutely incredible!
You are really doing a difference here with your posts man!
Thanks

Posted By: peachfuzz Date: 31 Mar 2009 06:54:22

Now you can see for yourself what a screwy logic you indulged yourself in. By uploading to Rapidshare, others believe you're actually changing their lives for the better. Who knows? In the long run, this might actually pave the way for a better world. What's more, they're actually thankful for this. But you know what is the profound truth that you might have overlooked? Nobody accuses you for collecting "Rapidshare points" as you have been so prone to think in the past. Because the love of music is much bigger than mere rapidshare points.

I sincerely hope you will change your ways of thinking towards others.

Posted By: CerealRipper Date: 31 Mar 2009 13:53:40

@fuzzymind

Can you tell me what screwy logic i indulged myself in? Because i am uploading to rapidshare to get rapidpoints instead of uploading to a trap like mediafire to get nothing and give them profit. The difference between me an you (one of them), is because you inserted yourself into a cretin super-philosophy that makes you believe you are some sort of virtual "robin hood," not seeking for any sort of compensation but the desire of being recognized as a hero. You can't talk to me about what i can and can't say about rapid-lammers and their attacks to other file-hosters. Any profit-prone file-host is the same, be it rapidshare or not. And you have only uploaded your stuff to rapidshare and other profit-prone hosts, so your robin-hood crap talk can't possibly be directed to me who have a long history sharing torrents. You have always been a rapidpoint seeker trying to propagate yourself as indisputable moralist pirate whe you have been nothing but a lame thief. And i think about rapidshare, netload, megaupload or anyother the same way i previously described in my comments. And as you can read above, my decision to upload to rapidshare (which came DAYS before the new rule) was meant to annoy people like you who actually think they are doing great shit by using rapidshare while marketing themselves as more special than others who use other hosts. It seems it worked... you had to come here with your defensive statement. There are only two free and non-compensation ways of sharing, IRC and Torrents, you have never done any of them! So wake-up and face the lammer reality you are in for this sharing thing right now! Because the only reason i am sharing here is because i can't do torrents anymore in my country or ISP due to traffic shaping, what excuse do you have?

And besides my torrents from demonoid, piratebay and others ended up copycated here by you professional rapid-lammers seeking for the glory of points and cheap propaganda of "robin-hood" glory. So this is sort of an attitude against copycats as well... i am glad some people who were not able to download before with just one host can do now with a mirror, but i am a provider of original content and have always been one, and it is completely absurd to even hear some "all-time" rapid-lammers and copycats criticizing me for my choice of host.

And just an statistic for your sad "rapidshare is salvation" philosophy, i still get more downloads from Netload than form rapidshare, just because premium users CAN download as much as they want with Netload. And BTW, i was being thanked for my posts long way before i decided to use rapidshare, only morons like you were annoyed by them or by my choice of host.

Posted By: chibbigon Date: 31 Mar 2009 22:45:27

great, absolutely great.

thanx a lot.

Posted By: KYRIE Date: 01 Apr 2009 03:50:12

Wonderful! Thank you very much, CerealRipper ! And, salvation or not, RS is good for me...

Posted By: ramonjd Date: 01 Apr 2009 11:20:09

The cue sheet for CD 5 seems to belong to Tchaikowsky's Swans Lake, and in CD 6 there are no cue sheet.
I'm the only one having this issue?
In spite of this, what a great post, CerealRipper!!!
Thanks a lot!!!

Posted By: CerealRipper Date: 01 Apr 2009 16:19:11

@ramonjd

What a crazy problem.... tchaikowsky and a missing CUE?? You sure you downloaded all the rar files completely?

Posted By: granporro Date: 02 Apr 2009 05:57:46

Can anyone upload a working Cue file for Disc #1 and #6. I can't play those two.

Posted By: ramonjd Date: 02 Apr 2009 09:23:20

@CerealRipper:
Downloaded again, all O.K. Thanks again!

@granporro:
CerealRipper works with a no-Windows system (Mac?) and the cue files are not standard for Windows, and dont work with WinAmp.
The problem is the name of the files. I suggest you to change the names of the flac files to CD1.flac - CD6.flac and edit the cue files with Notepad and change the line
FILE "Beethoven? Symphonies Nos 1-9 [Hybrid SACD] [LSO0598].flac" WAVE
(for example) for
FILE "CD6.flac" WAVE
or the name you prefer.

Posted By: CerealRipper Date: 02 Apr 2009 10:21:36

I can't believe, even with image files and a CUE sheet Windows can't read the names...? I stopped ripping separated files to solve this issue and yet here it comes again....

Posted By: ramonjd Date: 03 Apr 2009 23:33:53

Dont worry, CerealRipper.
CUE sheet can be edited and fixed the issues easely. In Windows, ":" is problematic. Try to replace it with " - ".
Thank you very much for your great posts. Keep on.

Posted By: sokos Date: 04 Apr 2009 18:40:03

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Posted By: Contrabasse Date: 05 Apr 2009 12:46:17

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Posted By: guguplex Date: 05 Apr 2009 16:41:42

@granporro:
CerealRipper works with a no-Windows system (Mac?) and the cue files are not standard for Windows, and dont work with WinAmp.
The problem is the name of the files. I suggest you to change the names of the flac files to CD1.flac - CD6.flac and edit the cue files with Notepad and change the line
FILE "Beethoven? Symphonies Nos 1-9 [Hybrid SACD] [LSO0598].flac" WAVE
(for example) for
FILE "CD6.flac" WAVE
or the name you prefer.

I got the same problem, cue files didn´t work but I could work it out with granporro solution (gracias!)
My dear friend CerealRipper, we all admire you here for your great work but could it be possible to simplifie the cue names??? For instance do not use the " : " sign please because in Windows OS it is not wellcome for file names!
Thanks al lot

Posted By: CerealRipper Date: 05 Apr 2009 18:17:44

I am trying a new encode for the new CUE files, but i am not the one who generates the name, the name of the album (therefore the one used in the CUE Sheet) is grabbed from the CDDB and automatically passed to the files. What i may do in the future if the new encoding doesn't help is leaving the FLAC Image without any tags. Check the Shostokovich Symphonies and some of my new ups for the CUE Sheet compatibility and let me know.

Posted By: granporro Date: 09 Apr 2009 06:06:00

I tried to edit and correct the cue files like some people suggested, but I had no luck. I'm not going to bitch and moan about it. Nobody owes anyone a thing. This is all shared material, and for the most part is really good stuff. Still it would be really nice if somebody could upload a working cue files for CD1 and CD6. I just hate not having the complete series.

PS You can also email me the cues. I have a gmail account with my Avax handle.

Posted By: CerealRipper Date: 09 Apr 2009 06:35:27

@granporro

Did you also change the name of the image file? Make sure you change the correct LINE in the CUE Sheet, should be something with a .flac in the end. Let me know what you did exactly, i'll up both CUEs with adaptations and then you try again.

Posted By: granporro Date: 09 Apr 2009 06:58:54

It had nothing to do with the .Flac extension or the image file name. I finally found what was wrong with the cue files. Apparently you can only use one pair of quotation marks. For example I had to change

TRACK 02 AUDIO
TITLE "Symphony No.9 in d, Op.125 "Choral": II. Scherzo: Molto vivace"

For this one

TRACK 02 AUDIO
TITLE "Symphony No.9 in d, Op.125 Choral: II. Scherzo: Molto vivace"

The "Choral" quotation marks within the TITLE quotation marks were causing a syntax error on Disc 6. Same thing happened with "Eroica" in Disc 1.

Posted By: CerealRipper Date: 09 Apr 2009 09:30:03

Just to let everybody know these names are grabbed from the FreeDB CD database, they are generated automatically into the CUE sheet, file names and tags. I can just rip the CD without adding any tags, this would guarantee (i think at least) Windows would be able to read everything perfectly.

Posted By: granporro Date: 10 Apr 2009 05:00:30

Well, now I know. Just have to pay attention to symbols, quotation, etc.

Posted By: Cardone Date: 11 Apr 2009 13:20:14

Thanks granporro for the solution, and thanks to CerealRipper for the share.

Posted By: libra_winmx Date: 02 May 2009 02:19:15

Cereal, boa noite, tudo bem? Super parabéns pela magnífica postagem. Nunca é demais elogiar: PARABÉNS PELAS POSTAGENS EM NOVO FORMATO.
Abração,

librawinmx,

Posted By: omnimusico Date: 30 May 2009 02:42:05

thanks for the post.I downloaded it an its greeat working fully.I Heard de first thrid and nine and they are wonderfull
THANKSSSSS!!

Posted By: KeNgoaiDao Date: 25 Jul 2009 13:02:45

Many thank you!

@TO ALL: CD1, CD6 had problem with CUE sheet. You can use Notepad to edit to remove sign "Eroica", "Choral" -> Eroica, Choral.
Also, change files name "Beethoven ： Symphonies Nos 1-9 [Hybrid SACD] [LSO0598].flac" that "CD1.flac".

Posted By: bearwil Date: 25 Feb 2010 02:03:40

What a pity, RS deleted the files. Any chance of re-upping them? It would be great!

Posted By: yjw820 Date: 18 Mar 2010 13:33:04

OH NO!!It's invalid now~!

Posted By: Sparkss Date: 25 May 2010 20:07:42

are the files deleted ? or just the link list ? RS sometimes deletes the link list but leaves the actual files alone, so a repost of the links is all that is needed. I am hoping that is the case here as well (crosses fingers :)).

Posted By: dupain1 Date: 14 Dec 2010 21:24:41

it says "ERROR: Folder not found." :(

Posted By: Falcony Date: 29 Mar 2011 17:20:54

Please, re-upload!!!!

Posted By: musc Date: 30 Aug 2011 18:35:45

links seem not working anymore ;(

Please,
Please,
Please, could it be re-uploaded?

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