Bernhard Forck

Christina Landshamer, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Bernhard Forck – Telemann: Ino & Late Works (2024) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

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The Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin and soprano Christina Landshamer present a Telemann monography, consisting of his cantata Ino and instrumental works composed in the same period. Despite, or perhaps actually thanks to, Telemann’s use of just one singer, Ino is highly dramatic, depicting a desperate woman trying to save herself and her son from her husband turned mad, eventually throwing herself off a cliff and then transformed into a goddess. Telemann composed it two years before his death, and the score is exceptionally rich and colourful. The cantata is combined with his Overture in D Major, Divertimento in E-flat Major and Sinfonia melodica, each underlining the exceptional liveliness of this composer well into the ninth decade of his prolific life.

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Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Xenia Löffler & Bernhard Forck – Mozart: Paris & Haffner Symphonies & Oboe Concerto (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

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Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Xenia Löffler & Bernhard Forck – Mozart: Paris & Haffner Symphonies & Oboe Concerto (2023)
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The Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin launches a series of Mozart symphonies to appear on Pentatone, starting with the composer’s “Paris” and “Haffner” symphonies. On this first album, the works are coupled with his enchanting Oboe Concerto – performed by the ensemble’s first oboeist Xenia Löffler – and the bold overture to Die Entführung aus dem Serail in Mozart’s own woodwind arrangement. Taken together, these pieces demon-strate the rich palette and expressive power of Mozart’s music in the period between 1777 and 1783, during which he finally managed to spread his wings and leave his hometown of Salzburg.

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Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Bernhard Forck – Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 8 – Méhul: Symphony No. 1 – Cherubini: Lodoïska Overture (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Bernhard Forck - Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 8 - Méhul: Symphony No. 1 - Cherubini: Lodoïska Overture (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download

Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Bernhard Forck – Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 8 – Méhul: Symphony No. 1 – Cherubini: Lodoïska Overture (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 known 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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Christina Landshamer, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin & Bernhard Forck – La passione (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin returns to Pentatone together with soprano Christina Landshamer, presenting La Passione, a collection of dazzling concert arias on love, longing and loss by Mozart, Beethoven and Haydn, paired with the latter’s “La Passione” Symphony. Ranging from pastoral simplicity to exuberant outrage, the programme offers some of the finest vocal writing around 1800, including some of Beethoven’s rare and little-known excursions to Italian bravura opera, as well as one of the most dramatic and expressive symphonies of the eighteenth-century.

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Bernhard Forck – Haydn: L’isola disabitata, Hob. XXVIII:9 (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

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Bernhard Forck - Haydn: L'isola disabitata, Hob. XXVIII:9 (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz] Download

After their acclaimed recording of Telemann’s Miriways, the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin returns to PENTATONE with Joseph Haydn’s opera L’isola disabitata, together with an excellent quartet of vocalists. Officially called an azione teatrale, L’isola is a serious opera about love, loss and misunderstanding with a happy ending, set on an exotic deserted island. Special about this opera is that Haydn chose orchestral accompaniment for the entire work, with colourful and dramatic accompagnato recitatives. In Haydn’s printed score, many of the elaborate instrumental sections were deliberately cut, because he feared that they demanded too much from the players, and that some audiences may not have been cultured enough to fully appreciate them. Special about this recording is that these parts have all been reinstated, using a recent edition by Thomas Busse. The seasoned players of the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, led by Bernhard Forck, play this lavish score with fervour and swing, while Anett Fritsch (Costanza), Sunhae Im (Silvia), Krystian Adam (Gernando) and André Morsch (Enrico) offer an equally virtuosic vocal delivery.

The Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin is generally seen as one of the best period-instruments ensembles of today, and has a substantial PENTATONE discography, including Telemann’s Miriways (2020), CANTATA with Bejun Mehta (2018), as well as Handel’s Messiah (2020) and Concerti grossi Op. 6 (released in 2019 and 2020) and Op. 3 (2020). Annet Fritsch and André Morsch featured on Telemann’s Miriways, while Sunhae Im and Krystian Adam make their PENTATONE debut.
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Bernhard Forck – Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2 – C.P.E. Bach: Symphonies, Wq 175 & 183/17 (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Bernhard Forck - Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2 - C.P.E. Bach: Symphonies, Wq 175 & 183/17 (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download

Bernhard Forck – Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2 – C.P.E. Bach: Symphonies, Wq 175 & 183/17 (2020)
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Cleverly paired with two symphonies by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach – written in 1755/56 and 1775/76 respectively – Beethoven’s first two contributions to the symphonic genre reveal the bubbling creativity of a thirty-year-old composer determined to go even further in the renewal of the genre than another, very recent reference, Mozart’s ‘Jupiter’. So much is clear from the very first chord of his Symphony No. 1! Relive this decisive moment in the company of the musicians of the Akademie für Alte Musik, under the guidance of their Konzertmeister Bernhard Forck.
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Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Bernhard Forck – Handel: Concerti grossi, Op. 6 Nos. 1-6 (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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The Akademie für Alte Musik reveals its performance of Handel’s first six concertos from Opus 6 in true chamber music spirit, which sometimes brings Handel’s universe closer to that of his continental counterpart, Georg Philipp Telemann, whose work has often been played and recorded by the Berlin ensemble musicians (including several indispensable albums for the French label Harmonia Mundi). For this magnificently recorded first part of their Handel trilogy, which includes the two opuses 3 and 6, recorded in the Nikodemuskirche in Berlin between September 2018 and February 2019, the Akademie für Alte Musik paints rich, striking colours (already showcased in their album Water Music) while remaining attentive to polyphonies and phrasing. This record is a real pleasure throughout, and perhaps even more compelling than their recent album Water Music. – Pierre-Yves Lascar

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Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin & Bernhard Forck – Händel: 12 Concerti grossi, Op. 6 Nos. 7-12 (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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This second volume of Handel’s Concerti grossi from Opus 6 was recorded by the Akademie für Alte Musik in Berlin under the direction of Bernhard Frock, completing the first part published in July 2019. Once again, the sound recording is magnificently natural, brilliantly capturing the venue’s spatiality and the instruments’ full-bodied timbres.

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Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin and Bernhard Forck – Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 ‘Pastoral’ (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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The almost encyclopedic undertaking that French label harmonia mundi has embarked on to celebrate the double anniversary of the birth and death of Beethoven between 2020 and 2027 has already proven itself to be captivating with its emphasis on contemporary works from the start of the 19th century. It also presents us with a version of Beethoven in direct contact with the works of his own era, a step away from the usual romanticised image of the solitary genius in his ivory tower.

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