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Beethoven

Symphony No. 6 “Pastoral”

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»Beiden Symphonien widmet sich die Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin mit derselben Hingabe. Man kann nur staunen, wie präzise das Ensemble auch Beethovens großangelegte “Pastorale” stemmt – ohne Dirigent, nur mit Sichtkontakt zum Konzertmeister Bernhard Forck. Wunderbar ätherisch klingt der friedliche Schluss bei den Berlinern. Sie spannen weite Melodiebögen und “singen” auf ihren Instrumenten, dass es einem unter die Haut geht. «

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»Vom ersten Ton an ist die Interpretation der Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin faszinierend und fesselnd.«

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Works featured on the CD:

Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphony No. 6 “Pastoral” op. 68
Justin Heinrich Knecht, “Le Portrait musical de la Nature ou Grande Simphonie”

The first Beethoven CD by the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

With his Sixth Symphony, Beethoven created a tone painting of strikingly vivid nature imagery and, at the same time, one of the most famous works of program music. With great mastery he captured the “Recollection of Country Life” and its many moods — culminating in the famous thunderstorm. Beethoven wove these scenes of nature into the symphonic structure with exceptional ingenuity. The pastoral character of the work became formative for a new aesthetic of symphonic composition.

Its roots, surprisingly, can already be found in Justin Heinrich Knecht’s Grande Simphonie, written more than two decades earlier. His “musical portrait” of nature is an extraordinarily original yet today scarcely known precursor to Beethoven’s symphony, anticipating much of its dramaturgy.

This CD presents both works together for the first time — performed on period instruments and conducted by our concertmaster Bernhard Forck. The juxtaposition makes a strong case for the still-undiscovered richness of color and creativity within the symphonic repertoire beyond the familiar canon of the Viennese Classics.

Artists
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
Bernhard Forck, Concertmaster

Released on
harmonia mundi, 2020