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 - released 9/Sep/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... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Symphonies Nos.1 & 2 (with CPE Bach: Symphonies Wq 175 & 183/4) Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Bernhard Forck [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 2/Jul/2020 ] BBC Music Award Nomination 2021 - Orchestral |
PAUL WRANITZKY
Wranitzky: Symphonies Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Bernhard Forck [ Deutsche Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 17/Jun/2022 ] Bernhard Forck leads Akamus in a spirited showcase of the Moravian-born composer's gifts as an orchestrator, featuring the overture to Oberon, the 'Grande Symphonie caractéristique pour la Paix avec la République francaise', and the 'Tempest' Symphony. |
GEORG PHILIPP TELEMANN
Telemann: Viola Concertos Antoine Tamestit, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Sabine Fehlandt, Bernhard Forck [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 28/Jan/2022 ] A precursor in this field as in so many others, Telemann gave the viola its very first masterpieces, immediately establishing it as a solo instrument in its own right. Alongside Sabine Fehlandt and the musicians of the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin,... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN / JUSTIN Heinrich KNECHT
Beethoven: Symphony no.6 "Pastoraleˮ / Knecht: Symphonie "Le Portrait musical de la Natureˮ Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Bernhard Forck [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 28/Feb/2020 ] ""Freshness and vitality are the two words which spring to mind. Concertmaster Bernhard Forck pushes the work along with a driving impetuosity which has all the burgeoning energy of springtime." MusicWeb Recommended |
PERGOLESI
Stabat Mater / Salve Regina Anna Prohaska (soprano) / Bernarda Fink (mezzo) / Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin / Berhard Forck [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 1/Sep/2010 ] "The Akademie establishes the poignancy of atmosphere at the start, and all the performances are stylish and emotionally in keeping." (Daily Telegraph) |
C.P.E. BACH / LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN / W. A. MOZART / PAUL WRANITZKY
Beethoven and His Contemporaries, Vol. 1 Berlin Akademie für Alte Musik, Forck [ Naxos DVD / DVD - released 19/Nov/2021 ] Recorded live from the SWR Schwetzinger Festspiele, Schlosstheater Schwetzingen, Germany, 24-25 October 2020 |
C.P.E. BACH / LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN / W. A. MOZART / PAUL WRANITZKY
Beethoven and His Contemporaries, Vol. 1 (Blu-ray) Berlin Akademie für Alte Musik, Forck [ Naxos Blu-ray / Blu-ray - released 19/Nov/2021 ] Recorded live from the SWR Schwetzinger Festspiele, Schlosstheater Schwetzingen, Germany, 24-25 October 2020 |
LUIGI CHERUBINI / LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN / IGNAZ HOLZBAUER / JUSTIN HEINRICH KNECHT / etc
Beethoven and His Contemporaries, Vol. 2 Berlin Akademie für Alte Musik, Forck [ Naxos DVD / DVD - released 19/Nov/2021 ] Recorded live from the SWR Schwetzinger Festspiele, Schlosstheater Schwetzingen, Germany, 24-25 October 2020 |
LUIGI CHERUBINI / LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN / IGNAZ HOLZBAUER / JUSTIN HEINRICH KNECHT / etc
Beethoven and His Contemporaries, Vol. 2 (Blu-ray) Berlin Akademie für Alte Musik, Forck [ Naxos Blu-ray / Blu-ray - released 19/Nov/2021 ] Recorded live from the SWR Schwetzinger Festspiele, Schlosstheater Schwetzingen, Germany, 24-25 October 2020 |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Concerti grossi Op. 3 and Op. 6 Georg Kallweit, Bernhard Forck, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin [ Pentatone / 3 CD Box Set - released 12/Mar/2021 ] BRILLIANT PERFORMANCES OF HANDEL'S MASTERWORKS Handel's concerti grossi Op. 3 and Op. 6 are among the most exceptional instrumental music of the baroque age, and the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin brings out all the brilliance of these delightful... |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Paris & Haffner Symphonies / Oboe Concerto Xenia Loffler (oboe), Akademie Fur Alte Musik Berlin, Bernhard Forck [ Pentatone / CD - released 17/Jan/2024 ] "The Akademie's great clarity in this recording gives a frequently exhilarating sense of the finesse in Mozart's musical architecture." BBC Orchestral Choice December 2023 |