Philippe Jordan is to be the next music director at the Vienna State Opera, but the city’s audiences already know him well as the chief conductor of Vienna’s second-most-famous orchestra, the Wiener Symphoniker. This disc marks the start of the orchestra’s first Beethoven cycle on CD. It might not leap out from the crowded Beethoven shelf, but it is worthwhile. In the glowing acoustic of the Musikverein Jordan drives Symphony No 1 onwards with persuasive, buoyant energy. No 3, the Eroica, gets a big-scale performance full of contrast, though occasionally ......
Wiener Symphoniker: Beethoven Symphonies 1, 3 CD review – persuasive and buoyant
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