Beethoven - Symphony No. 8 in F major: I. Allegro vivace con brio

[the81stviewer]

Thoroughly underestimated symphony of Beethoven, who ironically loved this one better than the more popular seventh!

[Boomflame82]

Absolutely fantastic sound quality for the time of the recording. I'm using this to help iron out the kinks in my own youth symphony audition.

Thank you very much for the upload. It's helped me immeasurably.

[smartnfancy]

Wow! 1954 and such a clear sound! Congrats to the digital audio team!

Yes, very accurate - all, the rythm, the sound, crescendos, all of them go in the precise german way, yet opening the view to the very soul of what the composer intended to express.....

[Elmerelmerelmer]

Absolutely, positively, the greatest 8th I've ever heard. Within context, this performance helps to understand what an amazing symphony this is, Beethoven's "throwback" to youth, reminiscent of Mozart and Haydn's symphonies; it's light, yet complex. In this context, the 8th is the brlilliant lynchpin between the moody 7th and the grandeur and finality of the 9th. And the metronome markings are right!

[hyrulemusic]

I'd never heard this particular recording of No. 8 before, but I'm glad I followed this link. It's very clean and tidy, and sounds very precise without losing any of the feeling behind the music (at least, seems that way to me). A great performance.

[themfromspace]

A wonderful performance! My favorite after Weingartner's recording with London.

[billyguns2]

This is one of the best performances I have heard of this great symphony, often overshadowed by its neighboring 7th and 9th; Scherchen gets everything right here, and I think really captures the spirit of the piece as few others. Hooray, he takes the repeat! When Hermann was good, he was very, very good. I wish you or someone would upload his legendary Handel MESSIAH that he recorded in London, not the one from Vienna. YouTube needs more Scherchen!

[RabidCh]

Sadly, uploading something as large as the Handel Messiah is not something I would want to do.

[billyguns2]

How about some key excerpts? For example,

For unto us a child is born," "Hallelujah!", "Amen," etc. ?

[billyguns2]

Oh, thank you so much! The Scherchen/LPO "Amen" is one of the greatest things I remember hearing, and no other conductor brings quite the same element of timeless majesty and heavenly conclusion to it, or the same daringly slow tempo.

[RabidCh]

Hmm well I put the Scherchen/L*S*O 1954 starting from "Worthy is the Lamb.