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Beethoven - Symphonies Nos. 5 & 8

Royal Flemish Philharmonic, Philippe Herreweghe

Beethoven - Symphonies Nos. 5 & 8
Philippe Herreweghe's Beethoven is characteristically muscular and gritty, bringing out all the music's visceral excitement.

Beethoven - Symphonies Nos. 5 & 8

Royal Flemish Philharmonic, Philippe Herreweghe

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Philippe Herreweghe's Beethoven is characteristically muscular and gritty, bringing out all the music's visceral excitement.

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Contents and tracklist

I. Allegro con brio
Track length6:49
II. Andante con moto
Track length8:29
III. Allegro
Track length4:35
IV. Allegro
Track length10:32
I. Allegro vivace e con brio
Track length8:34
II. Allegro scherzando
Track length3:48
III. Tempo di menuetto
Track length4:23
IV. Allegro vivace
Track length7:02

Awards and reviews

May 2008

Philippe Herreweghe's Beethoven is characteristically muscular and gritty, bringing out all the music's visceral excitement.

July 2008

PentaTone provides Herreweghe and his orchestra with excellent sound quality, very realistic and with
spatially divided violin desks….

June 2008

The principal appeal here is in the textural conflict between featherlight, shimmering strings and timpani-dominated full tutti, all despatched at the prescribed fast tempo.
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