With Donald Macleod.

In 1814, representatives from 200 states convened to re-draw the map of Europe at the Congress of Vienna. Half of the continental aristocracy and some 10,000 foreign visitors converged on Vienna. For nearly a year there was an unbroken round of hunts, concerts, masquerades and balls. Beethoven made a welcome sum of money from the steady flow of concerts organised by the recently founded music society the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde. The war against Napoleon had crippled the Austrian economy and Beethoven found that his annuities were worth only a third of their original value. But by 1815 - and thanks to a benefit concert on Christmas Day - he had managed to recover financially and his popularity was riding high.

Europe Stands! (The Glorious Moment, Op 136) Cori di Voci Bianche dell'Arcum, Chorus and Orchestra of Saint Cecilia
Academy, conductor Myung-Whun Chung
Symphony No 7 in A
Philharmonia Orchestra, conductor Otto Klemperer
Meeresstille und Gluckliche Fahrt, Op 112
Monteverdi Choir, Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique, conductor John Eliot Gardiner