We are currently in the the middle of the year 2025, but for this episode we will travel back to the year 1825, when the Romantic Movement was still young. Today, we will listen to late pieces by Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), Anton Reicha (1770-1836), and Franz Schubert (1797-1828), and early works by Louise Farrenc (1804-1875), Fanny Mendelssohn (1805-1847) and Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847). Beethoven and Reicha were already older in 1825 and had had long careers. Farrenc – Reicha’s student – and the Mendelssohns were still young and at the start of their careers. Schubert was still young, but would pass away only a few years later. In the 1820s, he was burdened by poverty and illness, but his works were already enthusiastically received, including by Beethoven.
Playlist
- Ludwig van Beethoven: Quartet for violins [2], viola and cello no.12, op.127 in E flat major
II. Adagio, ma no troppo e molto cantabile
– Danish String Quartet
- Anton Reicha: Grande symphonie de salon in D major 1825
Adagio – Allegro
– Le Concert de la Loge
- Louise Farrenc: Variations for piano, op. 2, no. 7 “Variations brillantes sur un thème d’Aristide Farrenc”
– Luba Timoveyeva, piano
- Fanny Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: An Suleika
– Anne Grimm, soprano and Kelvin Grout, piano
- Felix Mendelssohn: Strijkoctet in es-groot op. 20
- Allegro moderato ma con fuoco
– Henschell Kwartet and Diogenes Quartet
- Franz Schubert: Sonate voor piano D845, op. 42 in a kl. t.
- moderato
– Daniel Barenboim, piano
