Akademie Alte Musik/Forck - Beethoven and His Contemporaries, Vol. 2

The award-winning Akademie f�r Alte Musik Berlin has become one of the world�s leading chamber orchestras on period instruments. These concerts reveal some of the foundations of Beethoven�s genius, and capture vital performances from the 2020 SWR Schwetzingen Festival, the biggest radio festival for classical music in the world. Robert Schumann pointed out similarities between M�hul�s First Symphony and Beethoven�s Fifth, and these third and fourth concerts in the series also include a tempest by Holzbauer that precedes Beethoven�s by half a century, plus the little-known Le Portrait musical de la Nature by Justin Heinrich Knecht, a work that also anticipates Beethoven�s �Pastoral� Symphony.