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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

Contributors

Presenter:
Donald Macleod
Subject:
Ludwig van Beethoven
Musicians:
Chorus and Orchestra of Saint Cecilia Academy
Conductor:
Myung-Whun Chung
Musicians:
Philharmonia Orchestra
Conductor:
Otto Klemperer
Musicians:
Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique
Singers:
Monteverdi Choir
Conductor:
John Eliot Gardiner

With Stephanie Hughes.
Bach, transcr Busoni Chorale Preludes: Ich RufZu Dir , HerrJesu Christ, BWV639; In Dir 1st Freude, BWV615 Egon Petri (piano)
10.10 Martinu The Frescoes of Piero della
Francesca Vienna Philharmonic, conductor Rafael Kubelik
10.32 Tippett String Quartet No 2 The Lindsays
10.54 Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No 1 in B flat minor Egon Petri , LPO, conductor Walter Goehr

Contributors

Unknown:
Stephanie Hughes.
Unknown:
Ich Rufzu Dir
Conductor:
Rafael Kubelik
Unknown:
Egon Petri
Conductor:
Walter Goehr

Graeme Kay presents more musical highlights from this year's Mozartwoche in Salzburg and goes for a boat ride on the lake in Salzburg's historic salt mines.
Bach, arr Mozart Praeludium in E, K405 No 3 Artis Quartet
Mozart Violin Concerto No 4 in D, K218 Christian Tetzlaf Camerata Academica Salzburg, conductor Roger Norrington Symphony No 32 in G, K318
Vienna PO, conductor Charles Mackerras Clarinet Concerto in A, K622
Wolfgang Meyer (basset clarinet), Vienna Concentus Musicus, conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt HSognodi Scipione (excerpt) Freiburg
Baroque Orchestra, Salzburg Bach Choir, conductor Gottfried von der Goitz

Contributors

Unknown:
Graeme Kay
Conductor:
Roger Norrington
Conductor:
Charles MacKerras
Basset:
Wolfgang Meyer
Conductor:
Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Conductor:
Gottfried von Der Goitz

Huw Tregelles Williams introduces the final concert in a series given at St David's Hall, Cardiff. Today's programme features the ensemble Joglaresa, director
Belinda Sykes (voice), in performances of songs and dances from medieval Spain and North Africa played on colourful instruments of the period.

Contributors

Introduces:
Huw Tregelles Williams
Director:
Belinda Sykes

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Borodin In the Steppes of Central Asia Conductor Alexander Titov
Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No 3 in D minor Peter Donohoe , conductor Osmo Vanska
Rachmaninov Symphony No 2 in E minor Conductor JerzyMaksymiuk

Contributors

Conductor:
Alexander Titov
Conductor:
Peter Donohoe

Live from Chichester Cathedral.
Responses(Ebdon).
Psalms 73, 74 (Smart, Turle, Buck, Attwood, Woodward, Webb). First Lesson: 1 Samuel 24.
Canticles: Short Service (Ayleward). Second Lesson: Matthew 8, wl-17. Anthem: Let Us Lift Up Our Heart (SS Wesley).
Organ Voluntary: Chorale Prelude on "Eventide" (Parry).
Organist and master of the choristers Alan Thurlow. Assistant organist Mark Wardell.

Contributors

Unknown:
Alan Thurlow.
Organist:
Mark Wardell.

Sean Rafferty presents a selection of music and news from the arts world. His guest, the flautist and conductor Martin Feinstein , plays music by the Bach family and discusses why he prefers to use modern instruments for the performance of Baroque music.

Contributors

Unknown:
Sean Rafferty
Conductor:
Martin Feinstein

Andrew McGregor presents a concert given last night at London's Wigmore Hall by percussionist Evelyn Glennie , Hakan Hardenberger (trumpet),
Christian Lindberg (trombone), Oren Marshall (tuba) and Philip Smith (piano).
Zivkovic Improvisation (first performance) Undberg Kokakoka; Improvisations on a Gregorian Chant; Bombay Bay Barracuda
Bbrtz Dialogue for trumpet and percussion Blake Watkins La Mort de IAigle (1993) Psaphas Spike
Hogberg Kit Bones and Hawk Hardon

Contributors

Unknown:
Andrew McGregor
Unknown:
Evelyn Glennie
Unknown:
Hakan Hardenberger
Unknown:
Christian Lindberg
Unknown:
Oren Marshall
Piano:
Philip Smith
Unknown:
Hawk Hardon

As part of Night Waves's series mapping cultural change in different parts of the UK, Paul Allen reports from Tiger Bay in Cardiff, home to the new Welsh Assembly and a growing arts scene, where extensive redevelopment coexists with the area's older communites, including Yemeni, Somali, and Scandinavian populations. And Jack Zipes looks at the not-so-traditional origin of fairytales.

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Allen
Unknown:
Jack Zipes

With Jonathan Swain. Poulenc Suite: Les
Biches 12.25 Franck Cantabile in B
12.35 Saint-Saens Carnival of the Animals
1.00 Gillian Weir plays organ music by Messiaen. La Nativité du Seigneur
1.55 Debussy, arr Maarten Bon Jeux
2.15 Stravinsky Ballet: Orpheus
2.40 Britten Sacred and Profane (Eight Medieval Lyrics, Op 91)

Contributors

Unknown:
Jonathan Swain.
Unknown:
Franck Cantabile
Unknown:
Gillian Weir

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