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Composer of the Week: Beethoven

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4/5. With Donald Macleod. 22 December, 1808 was the date of one of the most extraordinary concerts in musical history. The programme included world premieres of Beethoven's Fifth and Sixth Symphonies, his Choral Fantasia and his Fourth Piano Concerto. The occasion would also be the composer's last major public performance.
Piano Concerto No 4 in G
Maurizio Pollini , Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Karl Bohm
Choral Fantasia, Op 80 Carola Hohn and Katharina Kammerloher (sopranos), Andrea Bonig (mezzo), Endrik Wottrich and Par
Lindskog (tenors), Rene Pape (baritone), Chorus of the German Staatsoper, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Daniel Barenboim
Repeated on Wednesday at 12 midnight

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald MacLeod.
Unknown:
Maurizio Pollini
Conductor:
Karl Bohm
Unknown:
Carola Hohn
Sopranos:
Katharina Kammerloher
Sopranos:
Andrea Bonig
Unknown:
Endrik Wottrich
Tenors:
Rene Pape
Conductor:
Daniel Barenboim
Source: Radio Times

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