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ClassicsOnline Home » BEETHOVEN, L. van: Symphony No. 3, "Eroica" / Overtures (London Symphony, Yondani Butt)
By MH94354 19-Jul-2011
My first new Beethoven symphony in years
Beethoven symphonies are like buying a house, you decide on one (too often Karajan), and then you live in it. Hardly anybody I know goes out to buy new recordings. This is a mistake. Butt and the London Symphony put a young and often ambivalent spin on music which may have been performed too often. The horns are stunning in their clarity, strings emotional and delicate, while the whole orchestra exhibits a profound, but technically sound, humility before one of Beethoven's most popular symphonies.more....
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