The Beethoven Orchester Bonn ("Wir spielen für Dich" -- We play for you!) likes to promote itself as a kind of civic booster. The idea would have horrified Beethoven, who got out as fast as he could. Nonetheless, the orchestra and music director Stefan Blunier have here come up with one of the more distinctive readings these two symphonies have received in some years. The orchestra, contrary to historical performance practice, but in line with what was actually often done in Beethoven's time, is unusually large, and the ...
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The Beethoven Orchester Bonn ("Wir spielen für Dich" -- We play for you!) likes to promote itself as a kind of civic booster. The idea would have horrified Beethoven, who got out as fast as he could. Nonetheless, the orchestra and music director Stefan Blunier have here come up with one of the more distinctive readings these two symphonies have received in some years. The orchestra, contrary to historical performance practice, but in line with what was actually often done in Beethoven's time, is unusually large, and the variety of shadings and contrasts in the first movement of the Symphony No. 8 in F major, Op. 93, is wide. In the archaic minuet movement of that work, there is a feeling of an old dance being overrun by the tumult of modern times: it comes off in Blunier's hands almost as a forerunner of Ravel's La valse. (In general, these performances look to Beethoven's future, perhaps a bit unidiomatically so, but always imaginatively.) The finale of the Symphony No. 8 is masterful, with the...
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