Word: valveless
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Beethoven: The Nine Symphonies (Archiv). What did Ludwig van Beethoven's symphonies sound like in Beethoven's day? John Eliot Gardiner and his Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique try to show us by using gut-stringed fiddles, valveless horns and other period instruments, and by adopting brisk tempos. To listen to this electrifying set is to rediscover these revolutionary compositions in all their terror and wonder...