Cannes Classical Award 2004. Sixteen years after Sir Roger Norrington\'s controversial readings of the Beethoven Symphonies, the maestro returns to this repertoire with a new recording of the Ninth Symphony. This recording is the first release of all nine symphonies, schedyled to be completed by mid-2003. Recorded from a live performance during the European Musicfest in Stuttgart in the summer of 2002, these new performances will be a fascinating document for collectors, as they experience how Norrington\'s conception of these scores has grown. Performed on modern instruments, by an orchestra steeped in the traditions of the German Romantic School, an artistic tension is set in motion, and both conductor and the orchestra are transformed.