Bernhard Forck, Die Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin - Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 'Pastoral'; Knecht: Le Portrait musical de la Nature (2020)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 303 Mb | Total time: 66:14 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HMM 902425 | Recorded: 2019
This recording presents two symphonies "on the theme of nature." Valid though this expression is, it nevertheless calls for quotation marks. Far from being a prefiguration of Beethoven's famous Pastoral, Justin Heinrich Knechts' Symphonie 'Portrait musical de la nature' represented a highly convincing attempt by it's composer to extricate himself from program music. It is exciting to hear these two works recorded together for the first time by the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin directed by it's concertmaster, Bernhard Forck.