The Symphonies

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Album Info

Release Date: 2008

Label: Deutsche Grammophon

CD 1 [75'42]
CD 2 [67'36]
CD 3 [74'54]
CD 4 [65'06]
CD 5 [62'15]

Symphonies Nos. 1–8:
Recording: Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Rome, February 2001

Symphony No. 9:
Berlin Philharmonie, Großer Saal, April–May 2000 (No. 9)

℗ 2008 EuroArts Music International GmbH/Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Hamburg (Symphonies Nos. 1–8)
℗ 2008 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Hamburg (Symphony No. 9)
© 2000 (Joseph Kerman's article)/2008 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Hamburg

Booklet Photos: © Felix Broede, © Cordula Groth (p. 43)
Beethoven Portrait (Inside Front Cover): Painting by J.W. Mähler, c. 1815 © akg-images
Printed in the E. U.

℗ 2008 EuroArts Music International GmbH/Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Hamburg (Nos. 1–8)
℗ 2008 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Hamburg (No. 9)
A UNIVERSAL MUSIC COMPANY
Made in the E. U.
Cover Photo: © Felix Broede

CD 1 Symphonies Nos. 1 & 3
Photo: © Felix Broede

CD 2 Symphonies Nos. 2 & 4
Photo: © Felix Broede

CD 3 Symphonies Nos. 5 & 6
Photo: © Felix Broede

CD 4 Symphonies Nos. 7 & 8
Photo: © Felix Broede

CD 5 Symphony No. 9
Karita Mattila appears courtesy of Erato Disques
Photo: © Felix Broede

Comes in a clamshell case with discs in paperboard sleeves and 48-page booklet; liner notes in English (Abbado's Beethoven · The Beethoven Symphonies), German (Abbados Beethoven · Beethovens Symphonien), and French (Le Beethoven d'Abbado · Les Symphonies de Beethoven); sung text in French (Ode à la Joie), German (Ode »An die Freude«), and English (Ode to Joy)

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