Sir John's fateful lack of music Orchestre Rvolutionnaire et Romantique/Monteverdi Choir m Barbican

Evening Standard - London | June 2, 1999| | Copyright

SIR John Eliot Gardiner is worried that, through being overplayed, Beethoven is losing his power to shock. Nevertheless, he set out last night to "postulate a new way of approaching Beethoven's symphonies" by showing how much the French Revolution was an influence. As if that had not been done before.

The first half was a lecture.

The Orchestre Rvolutionnaire et Romantique and the Monteverdi Choir began with a bracing snatch of the Ode to Joy, but thereafter were silent for long stretches while Sir John ranged widely on European history 1792-1824. True he showed that Beethoven's Pastoral ...

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