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Simone Young and the Wiener Symphoniker at odds in Beethoven

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Reviewed at Konzerthaus: Großer Saal, Vienna on 24 May 2014
Beethoven, Symphony no. 3 in E flat major "Eroica", Op.55
Brahms, Symphony no. 2 in D major, Op.73
Simone Young, Conductor
Vienna Symphony Orchestra
Resplendent Strauss from Canellakis and the Wiener Symphoniker
*****
Wiener Symphoniker parties in style at the Concertgebouw
****1
Stefan Herheim’s bold Fledermaus at MusikTheater an der Wien
****1
Grigorian and Akhmetshina dazzle in a secular Norma
****1
A spectacular Freischütz in Bregenz
***11
Love in time of the drug wars: a contemporary Tancredi at Bregenz
***11
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