New. Beethoven & the Italians
Symphonies Nos. 5, 6 & 7 - Cherubini, Rossini, Spontini
Münchener Kammerorchester, Enrico Onofri
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Presto Recording of the Week, 4th September 2026
This is a treasure of an album - not just three first-rate Beethoven symphony performances but an intelligently-conceived concept that invites us to see the opera-house and concert-hall as two...
New. Beethoven & the Italians
Symphonies Nos. 5, 6 & 7 - Cherubini, Rossini, Spontini
Münchener Kammerorchester, Enrico Onofri
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Awards:
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Presto Recording of the Week, 4th September 2026
This is a treasure of an album - not just three first-rate Beethoven symphony performances but an intelligently-conceived concept that invites us to see the opera-house and concert-hall as two...
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As an admirer of Cherubini, an attentive follower of Spontini’s dramatic daring, and a critical but deeply fascinated witness of Rossini’s public success, Beethoven was shaping his language in a musical landscape in which the symphony was in constant dialogue with the opera. This fertile state of tension has been newly uncovered by Enrico Onofri and the Münchener Kammerorchester: heard alongside Italian overtures of the time, Beethoven’s great symphonies appear newly charged with a theatrical urgency, dramatic impulse and unparalleled intensity.
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Beethoven & the Italians from Enrico Onofri and the Münchener Kammerorchester
4th Sep 2026
Three gripping Beethoven symphonies, interspersed with works by some of the finest Italian opera composers of the period, combine into an illuminatingly-woven programme that reveals new facets of both styles.
Awards and reviews
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Presto Recording of the Week4th September 2026
4th September 2026
This is a treasure of an album - not just three first-rate Beethoven symphony performances but an intelligently-conceived concept that invites us to see the opera-house and concert-hall as two intermingling worlds, in a way that even Beethoven himself struggled to.
