Gardiner managed the miracle to make us rediscover the works nevertheless already heard hundreds of times. Thanks to him, Beethoven reveals, is found as have seemed to his contemporaries, as "revolutionary and romantic" the orchestra of the English chef. Under his baton, the period instruments still sound with great beauty, a great overall homogeneity, fruity stamps which expand them into an aesthetic symbiosis. But mostly, this sumptuous sound dough is enhanced by the gesture of the Chief of always incisive and blunt attacks that avoid narcissistic complacency to better restore the grand breath through these partitions. How fresh! As a table dusted after a restoration that has also freed painting successive layers of varnish, these symphonies seem to find, in the glare of powerful contrasts, colors and their native rhythms stifled until now under thick glaze post-romantic. Beethoven's music and resurrects in all its striking power that makes getting up contemporary listener's comfortable lounge chair; Besides, I defy anyone to sit and listen to these versions, as one feels or thrown in the orchestra, in a literally physical communion! I advise those who want to engage in this authentic musical adventure to follow the order of the symphonies to better appreciate the evolution of the composer, as one of his contemporary followers. Under these conditions, the rediscovery of the 9th leave you simply breathless!
