Celebrating Salzburg
Six programmes in which Richard Osborne explores the story of the Salzburg Festival. 2: 1938-48
Richard Osborne traces the festival's changing face in the shadow of war: new positions of influence for
Furtwangler, Bohm and Knappertsbusch; the festival's strange and precarious wartime existence under Clemens Krauss 's stewardship; and its postwar rebirth in an occupied, war-damaged city with a dazzling roster of young Viennese-trained artists. Music includes highlights from Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro and Strauss's Die
Liebe der Danae, with baritone Hans Hotter and the Vienna PC under
Krauss - who also play movements from Strauss's Bourgeois
Gentilhomme - and, with Karajan conducting the orchestra, Brahms's German Requiem and Gluck's Orpheus and Eurydice. Plus:
Delius The Walk to the Paradise
Garden (A Village Romeo and Juliet) Vienna PO, conductor John Barbirolli Einem The Revolutionary Tribunal (Dantons Tod)
Danton THEO ADAM (baritone)
Herrmann KURT RYDL (baritone)
Austrian Radio Chorus and Symphony Orchestra, conductor Lothar Zagrosek See also Christmas Day 7pm
Next week's programme is at lpm