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This three-CD set is the first volume in andante 's complete survey of Beethoven's symphonies performed by perhaps the world's greatest Beethoven orchestra ? the Vienna Philharmonic. Drawn from the VPO's archives, these live recordings from the Vienna Musikverein are receiving their first official release through andante: Wilhelm Furtwängler conducting Symphonies Nos. 1 and 9 (1952), Eugene Ormandy in No. 5 (1953), Clemens Krauss in No. 6, "Pastoral" (1952), and Carl Schuricht in No. 7 (1957). Illustrated with an array of period performance photos, the set's 144-page booklet includes an introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winner Tim Page and essays by producer Gottfried Kraus, VPO veteran Clemens Hellsberg and American writer Erik Ryding ("Beethoven and Vienna"), as well as detailed artist biographies from The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians and the full text of the Ninth Symphony's "Ode to Joy" in German, French and English.