The critics agree: Mariss Jansons, who died in 2019, was the undisputed master of symphonic music, and he has once again proven this with his interpretation of all Beethoven symphonies, which he himself said was the best music that it could in this world there. In May 2013, the Music Pen Club Japan honored him for the performances in the Suntory Hall and for his own new, modern and transparent sounding Beethoven picture.
On this 6-CD edition, the symphonies are also supplemented by commissions from Mariss Jansons to six contemporary composers. The works, which were supposed to relate formally, ideally or through the material used to a special symphony by Ludwig van Beethoven, were intended as an introductory gesture or as a modern glimpse of the performance of the symphonies in question in the concert hall.
