Beethoven: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment/ Alsop ****
Royal Festival Hall, 4th February 2018
It was Robert Schumann who called Beethoven’s Fourth Symphony “a slender Greek maiden between two Norse giants”. Nestling between the revolutionary Eroica and the Fifth’s hammer blows of Fate, the sunny Fourth is no shrinking violet, a little minx brimming with Haydnesque wit. In this very fine concert given by the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment under Marin Alsop, she stood alongside another giant, the Violin Concerto in D major that Beethoven composed the same year.
Nicola Benedetti
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