Symphony No. 2: Expanding the canvas | Gardiner and the ORR on Beethoven's Symphonies
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- At a time when the Beethoven’s increasing deafness was causing him particular anguish, he composed one of his most cheerful works, with a final movement driven by an irrepressibly mischievous musical gesture. In the second film of our Beethoven Symphony series, John Eliot Gardiner shares his insights on the Symphony No. 2 in D Major, with exclusive footage of the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique in rehearsals for our Beethoven Symphony Cycle.
Directed and edited by Richard Wilson. Produced by Bill Lloyd & Richard Wilson. Director of Photography, Benjamin Ealovega.
Our live recording of the Symphony No. 2, taken from a performance at London’s Cadogan Hall in 2013, is available to purchase from the MCO shop here:
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About the series:
Though we’re sad not to be performing our Beethoven Symphony Cycle for you live at the moment, we’re delighted to share of our new nine-part film series in which John Eliot Gardiner and the ORR explore these incredible works as we rehearsed for this project. We'll be releasing a new film on each Symphony every Friday - for more information on this series, visit our website:
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The three Monteverdi ensembles - the Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists and Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique - are a leading force on the international music scene. World-class musicians and singers from many nationalities come together to share in the distinctive vision of our Artistic Director, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, in ground-breaking projects that span eight centuries of musical masterpieces.
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Maestro Gardiner's versatility closely reminds me of Harnoncourt's. Devotees, and specialists in Early & Baroque music on period instruments, but also living with classicism, and romanticism. What a pair!
Yes. I was thinking just the same thing.
One word: BRILLIANT!!!!
That is wonderful, thank you.
Fantastic!
Bravo Maestro...keep going
Although Sir John Eliot is not verbally describing it, Adolphe Adam directly quoted many parts of this 2nd symphony of Ludwig van Beethoven in his ballet music "Giselle". Sir John Eliot's recording presented here is vividly proving this fascinating fact.
3:35 Nice motive!!!
Eduardo Poblete de Chile, wonderful, beatiful música, eternas gracias maestro Gardiner, que gran orquesta....que bello sonido, un Beethoven inmenso...
With the microphones standing a little bit too far from the winds, in the video it sounds like there too many strings (if you were there, you wouldn't say that because of the acoustics), and it kind of loses its effect, the contrasts. However, you realise how LOUD were the trumpets at the time.
9:32 couldn't hear jack shit from the winds
Gardiner sounds so pompous as he speaks about Beethoven’s philosophical aims in the 2nd…like he knows what they were, indeed, if there WERE any….that’s the stuff that drives me nuts about most conductors. They’re so enamored with themselves they have no idea how ludicrous they sound.
It’s just an interpretation.
Contd l wish to add that Gs renditions of Bs lst and 2nd are Excellent because
Goodness, gracious. The orchestra sound soooooo incredibly rough. Intonation all over the place, and sound incredibly rough - almost amateurish. Is this what JEGi's groups sound like when DG aren't recording and editing him?
Mavid, these are rehearsals. And the mics are film mics, not studio mics.