Castles and Palaces
With Donald Macleod.
4: Schonbrunn. Haydn climbed the scaffolding while it was being built, Mozart played there as a boy, and it was the scene of at least two famous musical contests. Napoleon stayed there, his son died there, and visiting dignitaries were entertained there during the post-Napoleonic
Congress of Vienna. The deep-yellow Palace of Schonbrunn seems to epitomise the grandeur of the Austro-Hungarian empire in the time of Maria Theresa and Josef II.
Including excerpts from:
Haydn Symphony No 48 in C (Maria Theresa ) English Concert, director Trevor Pinnock
Mozart Variations on a Dutch Song, K24 Ingrid Haebler (piano)
Mozart Der Schauspieldirektor
Edita Gruberova (soprano), Vienna Philharmonic, conductor Georg Solti Sallerl Prima la Musica e Poi le Parole
Soloists,
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Clementl Piano Sonata in B flat, Op 24 No 2 Nikolai Demidenko Schubert German Dances, D90 I Musici de Montreal, director Yuli Turovsky
Johann Strauss (son) Waltz: Tales from the Vienna Woods
Vienna PO, conductor Willi Boskovsky