Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig/Chailly – review

Barbican, LondonWhen it comes to Beethoven's symphonies, how fast is too fast? Speed is turning out to be the defining feature of Riccardo Chailly's ongoing Beethoven cycle; it's what we expect from period-instrument conductors, but not from those helming such historied symphony orchestras as Chailly's Gewandhaus.In this pairing of the Eighth and the Third Symphonies, there were passages that were slightly scrambled. When even the Gewandhaus players can't keep up, you could argue that it is time...

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