Swedish Serenade (chamber concert)
with Sarah Christian (violin), Yuko Hara (viola), Tristan Cornut (violoncello), Juliane Bruckmann (double bass), Maximilian Krome (clarinet), Pascal Deuber (horn) and Rie Koyama (bassoon)
Joachim Nicolas Eggert: Sextet in F minor op. 6
Franz Berwald: Grand Septet in B flat major
Ludwig van Beethoven: Septet in E flat major op. 20
The composer Joachim Nicolas Eggert moved directly from Vorpommern to Sweden. He was born in 1779 as the son of a shoemaker in Gingst on the Island of Rügen and was court conductor to the Swedish king in Stockholm from 1807 to 1812. He could be called a "Swedish Beethoven", as he was the first conductor to perform Beethoven's symphonies in Sweden and was himself inspired by his music - almost simultaneously: his Beethoven was heard in Stockholm in 1808 and the Fifth was premiered in Vienna in the same year.
The excellent Franz Ensemble, named after Franz Schubert and awarded the OPUS Klassik for its recordings of rediscovered chamber music, offers a splendid and entertaining Swedish serenade based around Beethoven.
