Beethoven - Symphony No. 5 in C minor: I. Allegro con brio

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Uploaded by on Oct 11, 2008

Click here for better stereo sound: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVrOqW11jo0&fmt=18

Rene Leibowitz / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Recorded in 1961 at the Walthamstow Town Hall, London

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  • I can't say it's unequaled, but it's up there with the best ones, in my book. Brilliant!

  • Well, forgive my hyperbole, I just tend to get a little overenthusiastic when it comes to such underrated recordings. :P

  • Hehe, nothing to forgive. Instead, I should thank you for bringing this splendid recording to my attention.

  • Well, I'd say the Fifth is one of the less extraordinary recordings of this cycle, the Eroica, the Seventh and the Eighth are even more stunning especially the Seventh, the only one that compares to it for me is Erich Kleiber's 1950 one, both resist the temptation to accelerate during the final movement, Leibowitz hammers the layered, irritating rhythm into your ear with a cathartic vehemence I've never heard in another versions, save for Kleiber's.

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  • best recording of this symphony in my opinion

  • Woww--thansk so much for Leibo-Ludwig... !

    YT is really getting somewhere.

    : ]

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  • It is really wonderful. It is the highest socko performance. Leibowitz is a true great master.

  • Genial interpretación, poderosa y poética a la vez.

  • Impresionante version !

    Recordemos que Leibowitz obtuvo el "Gran Prix du Disque", por su integral de sinfonias de Beethoven.

  • Just brilliant.

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