LSO/Gardiner | Classical review

Barbican, LondonThere has been a lot of Beethoven in London of late, much of it high-profile and all of it high-class. At the South Bank, Daniel Barenboim's performances of the concertos with the Berlin Staatskapelle coincided with the OAE's ­symphony cycle with several eminent conductors. At the Barbican, meanwhile, John Eliot Gardiner and the London Symphony Orchestra have been bringing their cycle to a close. Unlike Barenboim, who compressed his material into a few days, Gardiner has space...

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