Northern Sinfonia/Thomas Zehetmair – review

Sage, GatesheadDownsizing is a fashionable concept in the current economic climate, though there are certain things that can't be skimped – late-Romantic Russian symphonies being a case in point. Nevertheless, Thomas Zehetmair's Tchaikovsky cycle suggests that a chamber-size orchestra can be viable in this repertoire. Zehetmair has delivered sprightly accounts of the second and third symphonies, and a slightly welterweight fourth, even with some reinforcements to the strings. The forces assemb...

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