Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67 / Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major, Op. 58

"Tilson Thomas's interpretation is free of any mannerism, but it is alive in every bar, full of passion, and marvellously played and recorded. A work which can lead to feelings of having been listened to, or anyway heard, too often, blazes from the speakers and defies one to feel familiar with it. To achieve that at this stage is an astonishing achievement." (BBC Music Magazine)

"This pairing is a sure-fire winner - two of Beethoven's most venerated works, performed by musicians of acute sensibility and enviable faculties of interpretation...We expect the impossible from fresh recordings of the Fifth Symphony nowadays...but if you're simply after a crisply attacked, consistently stirring performance of the work, unfettered by spurious gimmickry, look no further. The orchestra is electric in this performance." (International Record Review)