Beethoven: Symphonies 5 & 7 – review

Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique/Gardiner (SDG)"It felt as if we were playing for our lives," writes oboist Michael Niesemann in his sleeve note on this recording of a Carnegie Hall concert given last year by John Eliot Gardiner with the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, and (ignoring occasional wayward intonation) you can hear what he means: the electricity in the air is almost tangible. Gardiner is merciless in his demands, pitching his troops into a demented assault against th...

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