Beethoven and His Contemporaries - Vol. 2 [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. Robert Schumann pointed out similarities between Méhul’s First Symphony and Beethoven’s Fifth, and these third and fourth concerts in the series also include a tempest by Holzbauer that precedes Beethoven’s by half a century, plus the little-known Le Portrait musical de la Nature by Justin Heinrich Knecht, a work that also anticipates Beethoven’s ‘Pastoral’ Symphony.

Recorded live from the SWR Schwetzinger Festspiele, Schlosstheater Schwetzingen, Germany, 28–29 October 2020

Треклист:
Luigi Cherubini: Lodoïska: Overture

Étienne-Nicolas Méhul: Symphony No. 1 in G Minor

Ludwig van Beethoven:
Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67
Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68, “Pastoral”

Ignaz Holzbauer: Symphony in E-Flat Major, Op. 4, No. 3

Justin Heinrich Knecht: Le portrait musical de la nature