4/5. The Price of Success. Brahms was never one to make allowances for other people, in his life or in his music. Donald Macleod explores how this often difficult man won over his audiences to become the most respected composer of his era. Wiegenlied Thomas Allen (baritone), Geoffrey Parsons (piano)
Schicksalslied Atlanta Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, conducted by Robert Shaw Liebeslieder Walzer , Op 52 (excerpts)
Edith Mathis (soprano), Brigitte Fassbaender (contralto), Peter Schreier (tenor), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Karl Engel and Wolfgang Sawallisch (pianos)
Variations on a theme of Haydn, Op 56a (St Anthony) Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Herbert von Karajan Repeated on Wednesday at 12 midnight