Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven, Luigi Cherubini, Étienne Nicholas Méhul
Orchestra: Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
Conductor: Bernhard Forck
Number of DIscs: 2
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Harmonia Mundi
Catalogue: HMM90244849
Release: 2022
Size: 1.53 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
CD 01
01. Cherubini: Lodoïska: Overture
Beethoven: Symphony No. 4 in B flat major, Op. 60
02. I. Adagio – Allegro vivace
03. II. Adagio
04. III. Allegro molto e vivace – Trio. Un poco meno allegro
05. IV. Allegro ma non troppo
CD 02
Méhul: Symphony No. 1 in G minor
01. I. Allegro
02. II. Andante
03. III. Menuet. Allegro – Trio
04. IV. Finale. Allegro agitato
Beethoven: Symphony No. 8 in F major, Op. 93
05. I. Allegro vivace e con brio
06. II. Allegretto scherzando
07. III. Tempo di Menuetto
08. IV. Allegro vivace
The least famous of Beethoven’s symphonies? Yet these two works are genuine tours de force: the composer takes the listener on a journey whose destination never seems to be known in advance, one brimming over with structural innovations subtly brought out in this interpretation by the musicians of the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin.
This recording is also an opportunity to discover just how clearly Cherubini’s music prefigured that of Beethoven, whereas Méhul’s symphony is a response à la française to the German composer.
nice one – 1+2 symphonies were also released in 2020