Article: ORCHESTRA OF THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT SCHUBERT: SYMPHONY NO. 9 VIRGIN CLASSICS

The presence of the Schubert 9th on this week's programs of the Boston Symphony affords an opportunity to praise a new recording on a new label in which a new ensemble performs the work in a new and interesting way. The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment is a group of London's best free-lance early-instrument players, most of them familiar from their participation in long-established ensembles. What sets it apart is its decision to work not with the star conductors of the early-music movement such as Hogwood, Pinnock, Gardiner, etc. but rather with distinguished conductors from the "other side." The orchestra has played under Simon Rattle with conspicuous success and now, in their ...

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