{"id":539,"date":"2007-10-02T15:52:47","date_gmt":"2007-10-02T15:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/renepape.wpengine.com\/?p=539"},"modified":"2017-07-22T23:54:31","modified_gmt":"2017-07-22T23:54:31","slug":"symphony-no-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renepape.com\/en\/2007\/10\/02\/symphony-no-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Symphony No. 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the world&#8217;s elite symphonic ensembles is recording again after a hiatus of almost seven years, and DG is its proud partner. The Cleveland Orchestra, long regarded as one of today&#8217;s pre-eminent ensembles, is releasing its recent performance of Beethoven&#8217;s Ninth Symphony, recorded under the baton of its music director, Franz Welser-M\u00f6st, at their January 2007 concert in Severance Hall. In the symphony&#8217;s finale, The Cleveland Orchestra is joined by The Cleveland Orchestra Chorus and four outstanding vocalists, all with connections to DG: Measha Brueggergosman, whose solo project &#8220;Surprise!&#8221; will be released on October 9th. She sings alongside the celebrated German bass, Ren\u00e9 Pape, another DG exclusive artist. Two American singers complete the line-up: mezzo-soprano Kelley O&#8217;Connor, featured in DG&#8217;s recording of Osvaldo Golijov&#8217;s opera Ainadamar, and Frank Lopardo, one of today&#8217;s most distinguished lyric tenors. Franz Welser-M\u00f6st is now in his fifth season as The Cleveland Orchestra&#8217;s music director and his second season as the General Music Director of the Zurich Opera.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the world&#8217;s elite symphonic ensembles is recording again after a hiatus of almost seven years, and DG is its proud partner. The Cleveland Orchestra, long regarded as one of today&#8217;s pre-eminent ensembles, is releasing its recent performance of Beethoven&#8217;s Ninth Symphony, recorded under the baton of its music director, Franz Welser-M\u00f6st, at their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cd","category-recordings"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renepape.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renepape.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renepape.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renepape.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renepape.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renepape.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renepape.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renepape.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renepape.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renepape.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}