Beethoven: Symphony No 3 album review – thrilling, but Minasi’s determination to shock often feels self-conscious
Ensemble Resonanz/Minasi(Harmonia Mundi)Riccardo Minasi radically reassesses the Eroica, bringing its acerbic innovation to the fore in a startling and compelling new recording that will surely prompt heated debateIn 1816, a young Franz Schubert took a swipe at Beethoven, accusing him of promoting a musical eccentricity that muddled “the agreeable with the repulsive, heroism with howlings and the holiest with harlequinades”…
Ensemble Resonanz/Minasi(Harmonia Mundi)Riccardo Minasi radically reassesses the Eroica, bringing its acerbic innovation to the fore in a startling and compelling new recording that will surely prompt heated debateIn 1816, a young Franz Schubert took a swipe at Beethoven, accusing him of promoting a musical eccentricity that muddled “the agreeable with the repulsive, heroism with howlings and the holiest with harlequinades”…
