Maestro Beethoven

Well, in "Maestro Beethoven" Karsten displays his exquisite taste to recreate some of the most universal and immortal pieces of the deaf genius. Even if you have not heard Beethoven in your life, all (or almost) the pieces that will appear along the CD will be familiar to you. From the glorious beginning with "Moonlight Sonata" (with which Saviour Machine begin their shows), going into "Für Elise" (a gift to the one that has not listened to it before), the almost 13 minutes of "Coriolan Overture", the tremendism of "Ode to joy" (the "Hymn to happiness" of Miguel Ríos. Really, we are ashamed to have contributed this tremendous musical crime from Spain) that, is also the hymn of the European Union, (didn't you know it?), the sacred solemnity of "Consecration of the house" or "Egmont overture", the fragile beauty and the mystery of "Symphony in E, slow movement", the epic poetry of "The creatures of Prometheus", or the final sonata (a la Bach) "Sonata in F major". All the instruments -incredibly - are played with synthesizers and very faithful to the originals (you will not meet here with guitars, bass or drums), although the lack of a real orchestral sound is noticed.

Which is "Maestro Beethoven’s" problem?. In fact none for those are not familiar with the recordings of Deutsche Gramophon. In fact, I congratulate Karsten since thanks to this CD many will be able to know and admire the epic and power of European classic music. Evidently those of us with an open mind, will always prefer any recording of Herbert Von Karajan or Claudio Abbado to appreciate classic music with an orchestra of a hundred musicians before listening to "Maestro Beethoven" and we will always prefer Karsten to continue with his promising career that, after this CD, could be of a more lyrical style.