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The culmination of five digital releases, the National Symphony Orchestra and Music Director Gianandrea Noseda conclude their journey through Beethoven’s complete symphonies, releasing the complete set.

The National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) and Music Director Gianandrea Noseda will release the first installment of their complete Beethoven symphony cycle, a recording of Symphonies Nos. 1 & 3.

Gianandrea Noseda is widely recognized as one of the leading conductors of his generation.

For Gianandrea Noseda, the Ninth is Shostakovich at his most 'classical’, but a modern statement nonetheless. ‘Stalin wanted a celebration of the victory of Russia, and Shostakovich came out with a sort of opera buffa symphony,’ the LSO's Principal Guest Conductor says. ‘Short, witty, lots of sarcasm. I can really feel his wish to go against what was expected of him.’

"Five Stars … the performance of the First Concerto is particularly distinguished.

Gianandrea Noseda is widely recognized as one of the Leading conductors of his generation. He is Musical America's 2015 Conductor of the Year. On "Scheherazade" by Nikolaj Rimsky-Korsakov, Noseda proves as sensitive playwright who manages to still have energy for the next highlight in store at all dramatic outbursts of sumptuous work, and easily take back to the quiet and introspective moments sound violence and mood - and the handset so inevitably to captivate. This release (marked as Version 2) is the exact same same orchestra, same conductor, same interpretation and same location as the originally released version. The difference is that in the previous version - the recording has been made with three couples of valve microphones, all ancient and original Neumann U47, U48 and M49. This special edition has been made with only two microphones Neumann U47, capturing more acoustics of the theatre.

Gianandrea Noseda is widely recognized as one of the Leading conductors of his generation. He is Musical America's 2015 Conductor of the Year. On "Scheherazade" by Nikolaj Rimsky-Korsakov, Noseda proves as sensitive playwright who manages to still have energy for the next highlight in store at all dramatic outbursts of sumptuous work, and easily take back to the quiet and introspective moments sound violence and mood - and the handset so inevitably to captivate. The lush occupied Orchestra (all in triplicate occupied woodwinds, strings, twelve brass and a gigantic array on percussion instruments) have been adopted in this recording from 2015 with the Philharmonic Orchestra of the Teatro Regio Torino. Giulio Cesare Ricci took this magnificent interpretation purely analog in Teatro Regio with the unbeatable Neumann tube microphones on - no better way to hear this! A real must-have.

The past and the contemporary meet on this DSD EP, as Gianandrea Noseda conducts the London Symphony Orchestra performing Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 1. At once something entirely new, yet reaching back to a time gone by.

The National Symphony Orchestra is concluding its Beethoven symphony cycle this month. As with the first half of this series, music director Gianandrea Noseda is pairing these familiar works with others in the genre by African-American composers George Walker and William Grant Still. The first program was anchored on Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony Friday night in the Kennedy Center Concert Hall.

Johann Rufinatscha (1812-93) is best known as an FOB (Friend of Brahms).