In tune with the time

"Twenty years ago this month, EMI brought out a box set of the complete Beethoven symphonies that the London Classical Players and I had recorded during the previous couple of years. It startled some critics at first, but was loved by many thousands of listeners around the world. People who had found one or two of the symphonies "slow and boring" discovered that they weren't like that at all - at least, not the way we did them."

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