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Yes, but. . .

"Many wind and brass instruments were redesigned to make them louder, but not nearly enough to compensate [for the added strings]."

I can't say this has happened with any Beethoven symphony performances I've been to, but I've attended a few Bruckner symphony performances where, when the whole orchestra is "orating", I can SEE that all the strings are playing, but all I can HEAR is the brass! :-)

BTW, there is a fairly recent chamber-orchestra cycle of the Beethoven symphonies underway that I never tire of recommending. It's the one on the Tacet label, with the Polish Chamber Orchestra, Wojciech Rajski conducting:

They've done all the symphonies except for the Ninth so far, and every one of the performances I've heard (all except the disc pictured above) is extremely vital and exciting. In multichannel, the orchestra surrounds you (that's probably not very HIP!), but I think the SACD versions have a 2-channel CD layer. (I have the DVD-Audio versions.)


Edits: 03/23/11
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