Beethoven and His Contemporaries - Vol. 1 [Blu-ray]

The award-winning Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin has become one of the world’s leading chamber orchestras on period instruments. These concerts reveal some of the foundations of Beethoven’s genius, and capture vital performances from the 2020 SWR Schwetzingen Festival, the biggest radio festival for classical music in the world. These first two concerts of four see Beethoven’s revolutionary development through his first three symphonies set against C.P.E. Bach’s novel orchestration, Mozart’s pre-echo of a theme from the ‘Eroica’ Symphony, and Paul Wranitzky’s richly narrative Grande sinfonie caractéristique, a work banned by the Viennese authorities of the day for its provocative movement titles.

Recorded live from the SWR Schwetzinger Festspiele, Schlosstheater Schwetzingen, Germany, 24–25 October 2020

Треклист:
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach:
Sinfonia in F Major, Wq. 175, H. 650
Sinfonia in G Major, Wq. 183/4, H. 666

Ludwig van Beethoven:
Symphony No. 1 in C Major, Op. 21
Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 36
Symphony No. 3 in E-Flat Major, Op. 55, “Eroica”

Paul Wranitzky: Symphony in C Minor, Op. 31, “Grande sinfonie caractéristique pour la paix avec la République françoise” (Grand Characteristic Symphony for the Peace with the French Republic)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Bastien und Bastienne, K. 50: Intrada