| Notes: | Archiv Produktion: 439 900-2 (439 901-2--439 905-2; 445 907-2).
Title from box.
Words of the last movement of the 9th symphony by Friedrich Schiller; sung in German.
Compact discs ; 2 containers, in box.
Program notes by Peter Czornyj, Nicholas Marston, Jonathan Del Mar, and Clive Brown, and text with English translation (40 p. : ill.) included.
Includes interview with John Eliot Gardiner, in English, German and French, with musical excerpts (6th disc).
Orchestre révolutionnaire et romantique, on original instruments ; John Eliot Gardiner, conductor ; with, in the 9th symphony: Luba Orgonasova, soprano ; Anne Sofie von Otter, mezzo-soprano ; Anthony Rolfe Johnson, tenor ; Gilles Cachemaille, bass ; Monteverdi Choir.
Recorded Nov. 1991, Great Hall, Blackheath Concert Halls, London (no. 2); Oct. 1992, All Saints' Church, Tooting, London (no. 6 and 9); Mar. 1993, Maltings Concert Hall, Snape (no. 1 and 3; live recordings); Dec. 1992 (no. 7-8) and Mar. 1993 (no. 4), All Hallows Gospel Oak, London; and Mar. 1994, Palau de la Música, Barcelona (no. 5; live recording).
Vocal portion sung in German.
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