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		BEETHOVEN, L. van: Symphonies Nos. 5 and 7 (Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique, Gardiner)			1:13:19

Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92

I. Poco sostenuto - Vivace

13:08

2.99

II. Allegretto

8:25

1.99

III. Presto, assai meno presto

8:47

1.99

IV. Allegro con brio

9:14

1.99

Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67

I. Allegro con brio

6:39

1.99

II. Andante con moto

8:36

1.99

III. Allegro

7:50

1.99

IV. Allegro

10:40

2.99

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By KD108917
11-Nov-2012

An impressive return to the original strength of Beethoven's intentions

When I first listened to the ORR under Gardiner I thought "oh well just another orchestra trying to build its brand name with gimmicks like original instruments".

Some years on and I could not have been more wrong! The original timbre was what Beethoven, with his deteriorating hearing disability, must have intended. This recording gives him the respect due to his huge talent.

I feel strongly most of today's symphony orchestras produce a more mushy sound than the ORR. Intriguing is the feeling that size of sound is not necessarily in proportion to the number of playing members of the orchestra. Is it true that the smaller the size of orchestra the faster a work can be played without losing a single note?

While being unashamedly a romantic at heart
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By Scott Noriega
Fanfare
01-Mar-2013

…the first question that comes to many people’s minds when they see familiar repertoire recorded more than once, is why do it again when one has done it so well before? I think that the choice to record this concert live is reason enough. The recital begins with the Seventh Symphony; a wise choice as there is little which could successfully follow the Fifth Symphony’s triumphant conclusion. The dramatic opening of the Seventh is achieved beautifully as the soft and sustained woodwind lines are violently interrupted by the tutti orchestra: The textures are remarkably transparent and the articulation clean and crisp; the orchestral surges are palpable. The Allegretto movement has a wonderful sense of growth through its eight and a half minutes, the opening

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By Edward Seckerson
Gramophone
01-Jan-2013

John Eliot Gardiner and his resplendent Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique rejoice here in the sheer physicality of the music, the bounding rhythms, the stomping accents. The hair-raising reiterations of the finale, driven to the point of exhaustion—the most exhilarating kind of exhaustion—are accentuated by the immediacy of the sound, and the penultimate piledriving climax and coda are absolutely thrilling…

The Fifth registers marginally lower on the Richter scale but is again characterised by a propulsive energy. The plangency of that isolated moment of reflection for solo oboe in the first movement is eerily poignant here and I love, too, the way Gardiner brings home the unforgiving militarism of the piece, the way the martial

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