Beethoven - Symphonies 4 & 8; Mehul - Symphony no.1 | Harmonia Mundi HMM90244849

Beethoven - Symphonies 4 & 8; Mehul - Symphony no.1

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Label: Harmonia Mundi

Cat No: HMM90244849

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 2

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 9th September 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 unknown 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.

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