Gimnazija Kranj Christmas Concert Series - Anniversary Edition Series.
In this series, I am going to re-upload some of the milestones from our performing and recording productions in the last 15 years. Our lead master sound engineer Mr. Iztok Zupan remastered all of our analog audio recordings in amazing digital Hi-Res audio landscape. He used sophisticated rerecording processes, rubidium clock processes and some other exotic black magic for one of the most superior sound, you can get it on youtube.

This recording of Beethovens 9th Symphony, 4th movement is particularly legendary. Our balance engineer Matjaž Culiberg from National Radio did amazing sound design. The golden generation of the orchestra played this milestone recording with never-seen-before mastery and artistic excellence. Many of those musicians are playing now in the best world symphonic orchestras: Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Berlin Philarmonic Orchestra, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Tonhalle Zürich, Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra, Vienna State Opera, Frankfurt Opera, Kremerata Baltica, Bavarian State Opera and other renowned orchestras around the Globe. Our master engineer Iztok Zupan carefully inspected this beautiful audio material and did a spectacular re-recording audio miracle. Enjoy this legendary and one of the best performances on Youtube.


Gimnazija Kranj Symphony Orchestra
Maestro Nejc Bečan is a conductor
concert master Matjaž Bogataj

sopran: Kristina Bitenc
mezzo: Monika Bohinec
tenor: Martin Sušnik
baritone: Rok Bavčar

Ljubljanski Madrigalisti Choir - Mateja Kališnik
PAZ Vinko Vodopivec Choir - Primož Malavašič
Gimnazija Kranj United Choirs - Primož Kerštanj

Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125, also known as Beethoven's 9th, is the final complete symphony by Ludwig van Beethoven, composed between 1822 and 1824. It was first performed in Vienna on 7 May 1824. The symphony is regarded by many critics and musicologists as Beethoven's greatest work and one of the supreme achievements in the history of western music. One of the best-known works in common practice music, it stands as one of the most performed symphonies in the world.

The symphony was the first example of a major composer using voices in a symphony (thus making it a choral symphony). The words are sung during the final (4th) movement of the symphony by four vocal soloists and a chorus. They were taken from the "Ode to Joy", a poem written by Friedrich Schiller in 1785 and revised in 1803, with text additions made by Beethoven.

In 2001, Beethoven's original, hand-written manuscript of the score, held by the Berlin State Library, was added to the United Nations Memory of the World Programme Heritage list, becoming the first musical score so designated.

Sound design: Matjaž Culiberg
Flowers: Yasmin d.o.o
Light: Janez Kocjan
Scenography: Žiga Misjak
Master and rerecording processes: Iztok Zupan, Klopotec
www.klopotec.si
concert director and broadcast director: Primož Zevnik, PPZ production
primoz.zevnik@ppz-production.com

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