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Composer of the Week: Beethoven

on BBC Radio 3

With Donald Macleod.
2: Vienna
Beethoven arrived in Vienna in 1792 with the support and recommendation of his previous employer, the Elector of Cologne, and his friend Count Waldstein. He soon made a favourable impression in the salons and at court, adding the name of Prince Lichnowsky to his group of sponsors and acquaintances. But public life was not as liberal. Recent revolutionary experiences in France had made Viennese authorities nervous. As Beethoven wrote to a friend, "one doesn't dare raise one's voice here, otherwise the police find lodgings foryou." Rondo in C, Op 51 No 1 Alfred Brendel (piano) Cello Sonata No 2 in G minor, Op 5 No 2 Yo-Yo Ma, Emanuel Ax (piano)
Behold, My Love, How Green the Groves: Sympathy; Could This III World Have Been Contrived; (Scottish Folk Songs, Op 108) Catrin Wyn Davies (soprano),
Toby Spence (tenor), Thomas Allen
(baritone), Malcolm Martineau (piano), Elizabeth Layton and Kryzia Osostowicz (violins), Ursula Smith (cello)
Overture: Coriolan Philharmonia
Orchestra, conductor Otto Klemperer

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald MacLeod.
Piano:
Alfred Brendel
Soprano:
Catrin Wyn Davies
Tenor:
Toby Spence
Tenor:
Thomas Allen
Baritone:
Malcolm Martineau
Piano:
Elizabeth Layton
Piano:
Kryzia Osostowicz
Violins:
Ursula Smith
Conductor:
Otto Klemperer

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