Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 1-9
Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, John Nelson
…balance between the strings (a relatively small group using vibrato sparingly) and winds is just right, allowing one to savour details that are so often lost. Tempi are consistently well chosen,...
Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 1-9
Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, John Nelson
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…balance between the strings (a relatively small group using vibrato sparingly) and winds is just right, allowing one to savour details that are so often lost. Tempi are consistently well chosen,...
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July 2007
…balance between the strings (a relatively small group using vibrato sparingly) and winds is just right, allowing one to savour details that are so often lost. Tempi are consistently well chosen, too. Perhaps the most successful of all is the Pastoral, whose opening movement conveys a sense of cheery eagerness. The "Scene by the Brook" is truly magical.
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John Nelson leads the modern-instrument Ensemble Orchestre de Paris with an absolutely correct sense of style, and it plays handsomely
