The Beethoven we can’t live without

The Beethoven we can’t live without

Album Of The Week

norman lebrecht

March 10, 2024

From the Lebrecht Album of the Week:

… Practical in rehearsal, unassuming on the night, Neville Marriner was underrated by critics who seek grand gestures as their reward for attendance. Working musicians, by contrast, recognised him as a colleague of uncommon sensitivity and unfailing humanity. The present 1980s set of Beethoven symphonies is proof of his rare combination of responsiveness and personal style.

With the self-selecting Academy of St Martin in the Fields, a bunch of musicians disgruntled with the other London orchestras, Marriner practised democracy in action and achieved a neat compromise between big-band bluster and period-instrument theories…

Read on here.

In The Critic here.

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