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Budapest Festival Orchestra - Beethoven Symphony No 7 - The Guardian

21 May 2008
The Guardian

As a totality, the disc is consequently bitty, but the performance of the Seventh ranks, without question, among the greatest ever recorded. With the Budapest Festival Orchestra playing as if their lives depended on it, it's superbly articulated, thrillingly elated and emotionally exhausting. Weber, on first hearing the work, wondered whether its composer was insane, and for once you understand why. Utterly compelling.

Budapest Festival Orchestra - Beethoven Symphony No 7 - The Guardian

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