John Eliot Gardiner and the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique wrapped up the first leg of their tour of Beethoven's complete symphony cycle in Chicago at the start of March.
The Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique and John Eliot Gardiner kicked off our Beethoven 250 celebrations at Barcelona's Palau de la Música with the first of 25 performances of Beethoven's symphonies on 9 February.
The English baroque soloists, whose ritornellos moulded themselves to the mood and intensity of the respective atmospheres… formed the most finely tuned patterns for this theatre.
Yet another extraordinary evening of opera in the Usher Hall [...] Gardiner and his superb international cast then deliver the goods, with consummate style.
'John Eliot Gardiner['s] Berlioz performances [...] have become Proms highlights, and this thrilling night was no exception.' - The Times, by Neil Fisher