Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra, Keri-Lynn Wilson & The Choir of the Podlasie Opera and Philharmonic in Białystok - Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 (2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 258 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 143 Mb | 01:02:01
Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 258 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 143 Mb | 01:02:01
Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon
This recording of the Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra’s emotionally charged Warsaw performance of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony captures one of the artistic highlights of 2023. The orchestra was created as a cultural riposte to Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine. Their Beethoven has the unique feature that its text, Schiller’s great poem of freedom “Ode to Joy”, is sung in Ukrainian, indeed it also expresses Schiller’s opening word of “Freude” (Joy) as the Ukrainian word “Slava” (Glory) to electrifying effect in a moving echo of Ukraine’s rallying call of resistance in the face of aggression, Slava Ukraini! (“Glory to Ukraine!").