Beethoven - Complete Orchestral Works Volume 9

June 2007

“Thomas Dausgaard's Beethoven Eighth crackles with life and makes an enthusiastic play for the score's zanier elements, such as the syncopated accents near the beginning of the first movement's development section… Warmly drawn horns sit happily at the centre of the Menuetto and the finale has a finely tensed feel to it, keenly played with cut-glass tremolandos.”