Beethoven: Symphonies Nos 5 & 7
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Symphonies Nos 5 & 7
Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique, John Eliot Gardiner
[ Soli Deo Gloria / CD ]
Release Date: Wednesday 20 February 2013
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"These are the kind of performances that remind us of what a revolution of reassessment period-instrument bands provoke." (Gramophone)
"the electricity in the air is almost tangible. Gardiner is merciless in his demands...The tempo is often exhilarating, the playing always vital, edgy and thrillingly fluent. This is the most exciting Beethoven release you are likely to hear this year." (The Observer)
"Even if Weber didn't make the famous remark attributed to him - "Beethoven is ripe for the madhouse" - you can understand his reaction. Played as the ORR play it, it can still make your hair stand on end." (Sunday times)
"So palpable is the excitement of these live performances that it almost comes as a shock that the applause has been excised...Gardiner and his resplendent Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique rejoice here in the sheer physicality of the music...These are the kind of performances that remind us of what a revolution of reassessment period-instrument bands provoke." (Gramophone Editor's Choice Jan 2013)
"after hearing these explosive, invigorating and electrifying performances, we are reminded once again of the ferocious intensity that must have shell-shocked 19th-century Viennese audiences...Gardiner brings tremendous rhythmic drive and irresistable forward momentum to both Symphonies and revels in the sheer audacity of Beethoven's orchestration" (BBC Music)
