LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
SYMPHONY Nº7 IN A MAJOR, OP. 92
1 I POCO SOSTENUTO – VIVACE 13:52
2 II ALLEGRETTO 8:14
3 III PRESTO – PRESTO MENO ASSAI 8:30
4 IV ALLEGRO CON BRIO 9:11
TEODOR CURRENTZIS & MUSICAETERNA RELEASE BEETHOVEN SYMPHONY 7 RECORDING AS FOLLOW UP TO THEIR ACCLAIMED BEETHOVEN SYMPHONY 5 RECORDING AND SEMINAL CONTRIBUTION TO THE COMPOSER’S 250thANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS.
Their recording of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7 is the long-awaited sister-recording to Teodor Currentzis’ and musicAeterna’s Beethoven Symphony No. 5 album. Recorded at the Vienna Konzerthaus in August 2018, both albums are the Russia-based musicians’ seminal contribution to the composer’s 250th anniversary celebrations.
The recording promises to be as significant as their Beethoven 5, released in April 2020, which the German Newspaper Die Welt heralded as “The Fifth for the 21st century”, and the UK newspaper The Times defined as “one of those incendiary accounts that blows away the crust of familiarity to suggest anew the revolutionary force built into this master score.”
For Currentzis, the Seventh has ‘the greatest form ever achieved in a symphony’. He compares its structural perfection to that of the Athenian classic, the zenith of Classical architecture in which every proportion and every refinement of scale is placed in the service of a spiritual beauty honouring the city’s protector, the goddess Athena.
The recording of Symphony No. 7 will be released on CD and digital formats on April 9, 2021. The recording has been made possible by VTB Bank’s support.