Nice review of Emanuel Krivine’s recording of Beethoven’s Symphony No 9 in The Independent on Sunday

Recorded in Grenoble, Vichy and Paris, Emanuel Krivine’s Beethoven dazzles with closely mic-ed details. La Chambre Philharmonique’s bassoons are the unlikely stars, jostled out of the way by heaven-sent strings in the Adagio, and an almost comically hyperactive contrabassoon in the finale. Les Eléments deliver a lithe, moving account of Goethe’s Ode, with a suave introduction from bass soloist Konstantin Wolff. Too much technical trickery to be properly ”live”, perhaps. But what a refreshing, bold reading.
Anna Picard