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Katie Derham this week explores some ravishing music from Renaissance and Baroque Spain. Today Musica Reservata of Barcelona are heard in a controversial and harmonically daring mass by the once-famous Catalan Baroque master Francisco Valls as well as three masterpieces from the Spanish Golden Age.
Also today, as part of Music on the Brink week, there's a chance to compare two major works performed in Vienna on the eve of the First World War. Joseph Matthias Hauer's short Apocalyptic Fantasy traces the way in which twelve shadings on a musical colour circle reveal themselves to a blind listener whilst Schmidt's mighty Second Symphony makes subtle use of a vast orchestra in an unusually structured work which consisitng of a Prelude, a Theme and Variations and Finale. This symphony has remained controversial ever since its premiere by the Vienna Philharmonic in December 1913.

Victoria Vexila regis 'more hispano'
Guerrero Maria Magdalena et altera Maria
Guerrero Et introeuntes ad monumentum
Musica Reservata de Barcelona, Peter Phillips (conductor)
recorded at St Anne's Church, Barcelona

c. 2.15pm
As part Music on the Brink week, today featuring major works performed in Vienna on the eve of the First World War.

Joseph Matthias Hauer Apocalyptic Fantasy op 5
Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Gottfried Rabl (conductor)

c. 2.30pm
Franz Schmidt Symphony no 2
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Neeme Jarvi (conductor)

c. 3.15pm
Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor, op. 57 'Appassionata'
Alexandre Tharaud (piano)
recorded at the Oriol Martorell Hall, Auditori, Barcelona

c. 3.40pm
Francisco Valls (c.1671-1747) Kyrie, Gloria and Credo from Missa Scala aretina
La Grande Chapelle, Albert Recassens (director)
recorded at Santa Maria Cathedral, La Seu d'Urgell as part of the Pyrenees Music Festival.