Music Chapel Festival: Beyond Beethoven - Digital edition - Opening Concert Beethoven Pastorale

Shuichi Okada, violin
Alexandra Cooreman, violin
Violaine Despeyroux, viola
Takumi Nozawa, viola
Zachary Mowitz, cello
Jérémy Garbarg, cello

L. van Beethoven: Symphony No. 6, in F major, op. 68, “Pastoral” (arr. for string sextet by M. Gotthard Fischer)
I. Allegro ma non troppo
II. Andante molto mosso
III. Allegro
IV. Allegro
V. Allegretto

The Pastoral Symphony expresses, in Beethoven’s words, ‘the emotions man feels in the country’. Through the work’s different movements, the composer guides the listener through his rural soundscape, beginning with the awakening of cheerful feelings on arriving in the countryside, followed by a scene by the brook and the merry gathering of country folk to which a thunderstorm invites itself (thunder, storm) before concluding with the shepherd’s song, and cheerful and thankful feelings after the storm.

Recorded on November 25, 2020

We would like to thank ING, Proximus, Ginion, the National Lottery, the « Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles », the « Province du Brabant Wallon », the private Foundations, corporate partners and Maecenas for their support in all the projects of the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel.

[Musicchapel]

Welcome to our opening concert tonight for this digital edition of the Music Chapel Festival dédicated to Beyond Beethoven! Feel free to comment, of course, and like our video. Enjoy the music!

[ycwong]

Wonderful performance. This "chamber" version as good as the orchestral version and enjoyable in a different approach. Power of Beethovan composition shines thro. Musicians are v good.