Peter Stangel

The Pocket Philharmonic Orchestra, Peter Stangel: The Pocket Philharmonic Orchestra, Peter Stangel – Beethoven Revisited Symphonies 1-9

by C. Michael Bailey
March 24, 2018

One thing that can be bragged on regarding Beethoven's nine symphonies is their artistic durability and persistence. As the pinnacle of Western Musical thought, we might not expect any less of this music, seemingly forged in humanity's collective unconscious, as well as possibly encoded in our spiritual genome. This orchestral music has endured a variety of musical translations, including reduction to piano transcriptions by Franz Liszt and full re-orchestrations by Gustav Mahler. Richard Wagner even tinkered with the Ninth, doubling ...