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　　《贝多芬：第六交响曲“田园”》贝多芬酷爱大自然，常常在乡间漫步而流连忘返。创作《“田园”交响曲》时，贝多芬已经两耳失聪，承受着无声世界的不尽摧残。罗曼?罗兰说：“他只好在精神世界里重新创造一个大自然，”从而表达他对大自然的无限依恋之情。贝多芬自己解释这部作品是“感受多于音画，乡村生活的回忆多于写景”。

Dutch conductor Bernard Haitink and the Berliner Philharmoniker meet at this year’s Easter Festival in Baden-Baden. Haitink is regarded as an authority, especially on the music of Beethoven. In this production he conducts Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6, the “Pastoral”. For the Violin Concerto multi-awarded Isabelle Faust is taken to the stage with him. Since her recordings with Claudio Abbado, she is the first choice when it comes to this masterpiece.

Isabelle Faust has been one of the leading violinists in the world for years: “her sound has passion, grit and electricity,” the New York Times wrote, “but also a disarming warmth and sweetness that can unveil the music’s hidden strains of lyricism.” She doesn’t have to think twice when she answers the question what music her “Sleeping Beauty” Stradivarius from 1704 likes the most: “If I had to choose an ideal piece, it would be the Beethoven Violin Concerto. Music that is fleet of foot, radiantly shining, nothing that sounds too earthy. On its best days this violin has an unbelievable brightness, very silvery-golden. The very bright Beethoven sound also suits me very well: it is compatible with my nature and my emotions.”

As guest performer with the Berliner Philharmoniker conducted by Bernard Haitink, Isabelle Faust will present on her “Sleeping Beauty” (known as such because it was first forgotten in an attic for 150 years, and then disappeared again into a vault for a long time before being re-discovered) the “ideal piece”: Beethoven’s Violin Concerto. The programme follows with one of the most popular Beethoven symphonies, namely the Pastorale with its famous birdcalls in the second movement; the birds’ names can be found in the manuscript: nightingale (flute), quail (oboe) and cuckoo (clarinet). In purely musical terms this is a virtually freely performed cadenza for three solo instruments; for a short time, the symphony takes on the character of a concertante.

Recorded live April 2015, Festspielhaus Baden-Baden.

1. Opening
 Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
 Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 61
2. I. Allegro ma non troppo
3. II. Larghetto
4. III. Rondo: Allegro
 Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68 "Pastoral"
5. I. Allegro ma non troppo
6. II. Andante molto mosso
7. III. Allegro
8. IV. Allegro
9. V. Allegretto
10. Applause & End Credits