Beethoven: Symphonies Nos.4 & 8 (with Mehul: Symphony No. 1 & Cherubini: Lodoiska Overture)

 
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Symphonies Nos.4 & 8 (with Mehul: Symphony No. 1 & Cherubini: Lodoiska Overture)
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Bernhard Forck

[ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD ]

Release Date: Friday 9 September 2022

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.

Tracks:

Cherubini: Lodoïska: Overture
Beethoven: Symphony No. 4 in B flat major, Op. 60
Méhul: Symphony No. 1 in G minor
Beethoven: Symphony No. 8 in F major, Op. 93

Symphony No. 4 in B-Flat Major, Op. 60: IV. Allegro ma non troppo