Symphony No. 6 - Egmont Overture

Former Principal Conductor and Music Director of the London Philharmonic Orchestra Klaus Tennstedt leads the Orchestra in these live concert performances of Beethovens Pastoral Symphony No. 6 and his Overture to Egmont, recorded in 1991 and 1992 at the Royal Festival Hall, London. No one can love the countryside as much as I do, Beethoven once said, for surely woods, trees and rocks produce the echo which man desires to hear. But nature was not just a balm for the senses; for Beethoven it was evidence of the Creators hand. In his Sixth Symphony, Beethoven created a magnificent orchestral landscape in which the atmosphere of the countryside pervades every bar.