The article picks a "strangely thrilling Beethoven’s Fifth — strange, because tiny details spring out of what sounds like a big band" recorded by Peter Eotvos.

The article picks a "strangely thrilling Beethoven’s Fifth — strange, because tiny details spring out of what sounds like a big band" recorded by Peter Eotvos. This might also be said of the John Eliot Gardiner version[1] Performed on period instruments, which seems to expose detail, it flies through the first movement at the hard rockin' tempo of 108 bpm as per Beethoven's score - a refreshing change of pace if you're more used to lugubrious conventional performances. 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNtb-ly1I_k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNtb-ly1I_k (full performance)