KONWITSCHNY,FRANZ/GEWANDHAUSORCHESTER LE - Beethoven: Symphonies (6CD Ed.) (Sealed) (CDBOX)

Beethoven's nine symphonies are one of the main pillars in the musical history of Western music. Under the direction of Franz Konwitschny, they were already part of the recording and publishing program at the Eterna label, where several recordings of the fifth and sixth symphonies with the Gewandhausorchester were released. The first recording, released on vinyl, was made in the form of the "Eroica" at the end of 1954 in Dresden with the state chapel there. The complete version of the complete cycle was presented in co-production with Philips in the Leipzig Bethanienkirche during three recording periods from 1959 to 1961. In 1949 Franz Konwitschny (1901-1962) was appointed as the Gewandhauskapellmeister. After two years of study in Brno, the musician from the North Moravian region continued his education at the Leipzig Institute (1923-1925), founded by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy in 1843, during which time the musical tradition of this city was born. His performance in violin and violas was already so marked at the beginning of the Leipzig studies that Wilhelm Furtwangler used him as a substitute in the Gewandhaus concerts. As in the concert, Konwitschny presupposed the sound culture and precision of the orchestra. And he knew how to inspire the orchestra with his suggestive, moving, impulsive but not elaborate gestures. In interruptions and corrections, his infallible ability to pursue a once-recorded tempo, enable him to reach the unity of the whole. Thus the recordings here are important testimonies of the unbroken Beethoven tradition in the Gewandhaus and an important part of the German record history.