or Deutsche Grammophon, Sir John Eliot Gardiner and the\nOrchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique returned to this repertoire\nfor the first time last year, in a tour that took them to London,\nPhiladelphia, Washington and New York. The concert in Carnegie Hall\nwas broadcast live by WQXR, who kindly agreed to make the recording\navailable to us to release on our label.

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Sir John Eliot’s Gardiner’s reading of these familiar pieces\nhighlights their revolutionary origin.

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Performing on period instruments, the ORR brings light, clarity\nand brisk energy, as well as a warm and genuinely thrilling\nsound.

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The Seventh, famously described by Wagner as the “apotheosis of\nthe dance”, stands out by its sheer physical energy expressed in\nits many obsessively repetitive passages. The Fifth, often\nconsidered to be a deeply personal piece, also reveals echoes of\nrevolutionary songs.

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The album is packaged in a digipack and contains a 36 pages\nbooklet with original notes by BBC presenter and music journalist\nStephen Johnson.

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