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This week's Album Of The Week is Antonello Manacorda & the Chamber Academy of Potsdam - 'Beethoven: The Complete Symphonies'
Last updated 7th May 2024
“Those listening to these new recordings will be richly rewarded.” – West German General Newspaper.
Conductor Antonello Manacorda and the Chamber Academy of Potsdam present Beethoven: The Complete Symphonies in a special box set out today. The release coincides with the 200-year anniversary celebrations of the premiere performance of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony in early May.
The first two installments in the ensemble’s Beethoven cycle recording have already been released to great critical acclaim. Reviewing their first installment, Gramophone Magazine remarked “The orchestra’s rhythmic assurance is similarly impressive, and especially in the way they bring a sense of the dance to these scores,” while Fono Forum singled out the performances’ “inner logic and power of conviction.”
The Kammerakademie Potsdam and its music director Antonello Manacorda have garnered multiple awards with their complete recordings of the symphonies of Schubert and Felix Mendelssohn, while their release of Mozart’s last three symphonies earned them the title of Orchestra of the Year at the 2022 OPUS Klassik Awards – Germany’s leading televised classical awards. Brandenburg’s first orchestral academy appears in Potsdam and throughout Brandenburg, performing concerts geared to all age-groups, while also undertaking Europe-wide tours.
As an Italian with a pronounced affinity for German music, Manacorda has appeared in many of the world’s leading opera houses from London and Munich to New York. Among the internationally renowned symphony orchestras with which he has worked are the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, where he returns in May, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Dresden Staatskapelle, the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, the Munich Philharmonic, the Royal Philharmonic and the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra.
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