BEETHOVEN, L. van: Beethoven and His Contemporaries, Vol. 2: Concert 3 (Berlin Akademie fur Alte Musik, Forck)
Orchestra:
Berlin Akademie fur Alte Musik
Conductor:
Forck, Bernhard
Composer:
Cherubini, Luigi
Composer:
Mehul, Etienne-Nicolas
Composer:
Beethoven, Ludwig van
Venue: SWR Schwetzinger Festspiele, Schlosstheater Schwetzingen
Date of Concert: 28-10-2020
Festival: Schwetzingen Festival
Playing Time: 01:11:02
Television Director:
Radulescu, Alexander
Catalogue Number: NRE05203
The award-winning Akademie fur 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 Mehul'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.
