BEETHOVEN: SYMPHONIES NOS. 1 & 2

Beethoven s first two contributions to the symphonic genre reveal the bubbling creativity of the thirty-year-old composer. With the renewal of the genre he was determined to push even further than the recent reference of Mozart s Jupiter Symphony. Cleverly paired with two symphonies by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach another iconoclast the music world changed forever with the very first chord of Beethoven s Symphony No.1. Relive this decisive moment in the company of the Akademie für Alte Musik under the guidance of their concertmaster Bernhard Forck.