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- Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 8 - Méhul: Symphony No. 1 - Cherubini: Lodoïska Overture
- Artist
- Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Bernhard Forck
- Label
- Harmonia Mundi
- Catalogue Number
- HMM90244849
- Release Date
- September 9, 2022
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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.
Digital Tracklist
- 1 Lodoïska: Overture. Adagio - Allegro vivace - Moderato - Allegro vivace 9:27
- 2 Symphony No. 4 in B-Flat Major, Op. 60: I. Adagio - Allegro vivace 10:24
- 3 Symphony No. 4 in B-Flat Major, Op. 60: II. Adagio 8:35
- 4 Symphony No. 4 in B-Flat Major, Op. 60: III. Allegro molto e vivace - Trio. Un poco meno allegro 5:32
- 5 Symphony No. 4 in B-Flat Major, Op. 60: IV. Allegro ma non troppo 6:56
- 1 Symphony No. 1 in G Minor: I. Allegro 6:55
- 2 Symphony No. 1 in G Minor: II. Andante 7:59
- 3 Symphony No. 1 in G Minor: III. Menuet. Allegro - Trio 3:23
- 4 Symphony No. 1 in G Minor: IV. Finale. Allegro agitato 6:14
- 5 Symphony No. 8 in F Major, Op. 93: I. Allegro vivace e con brio 8:34
- 6 Symphony No. 8 in F Major, Op. 93: II. Allegretto scherzando 4:03
- 7 Symphony No. 8 in F Major, Op. 93: III. Tempo di Menuetto 5:21
- 8 Symphony No. 8 in F Major, Op. 93: IV. Allegro vivace 7:17