Transplanting a fine old Central European tradition: A New Year’s Eve performance of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony – here, the legendary 1958 recording by the Berlin Philharmonic, conducted by Ferenc Fricsay – along with another work from Beethoven’s last years, “The Consecration of the House” Overture, and another choral symphony in all but name, Joseph Haydn’s “Nelson Mass,” which in some respects pre-echoes the Ninth.
7-9 p.m. EST
2200-0000 UTC/GMT
WDCE, University of Richmond
90.1 FM
http://wdce.org
Beethoven: “The Consecration of the House” Overture
Swedish Chamber Orchestra Örebro/Thomas Dausgaard
(Simax Classics)
Haydn: Mass in D minor (“Nelson Mass”)
Susan Gritton, soprano
Pamela Helen Stephen, mezzo-soprano
Mark Padmore, tenor
Stephen Varcoe, baritone
Collegium Musicum 90/Richard Hickox
(Chandos)
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D minor (“Choral”)
Irmgard Seefried, soprano
Maureen Forrester, mezzo-soprano
Ernst Haefliger, tenor
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, baritone
Choir of St. Hedwig Cathedral, Berlin
Berlin Philharmonic/Ferenc Fricsay
(Deutsche Grammophon)
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