I read one description of this performance as “lean, mean and joyless”. My version would be trim, taut but certainly not terrific; or, refreshingly scrubbed, grimly business-like and fatuously dynamic. For me, it seems to cleave to the 21st-century default setting of Beethoven’s Ninth where the architecture, fury, depth and ultimate glory are all deliberately (or so it seems) underplayed. Then again,...