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The perfect classical half-hour

A wander around the musical alleyways of Vienna, taking in Schubert, Haydn and the popular Schrammelmusik.

If you went to a wine tavern in Vienna in the 1890's, the chances are you'd encounter a Schrammel ensemble. With a couple of violins, a guitar, and a clarinet or accordion, they played their own arrangements of local folk songs, waltzes, polkas and Viennese dialect songs, and they were all the rage, admired by Brahms and Schoenberg among others. There's been a revival in Schrammelmusik in recent years - and we begin and end with two fine examples. In between it's a wander around the musical alleyways of the city, taking in Schubert, as interpreted by Liszt and hurdy-gurdy player Matthias Loibner, Papa Haydn, and renaissance composer Leonhard P盲minger.

Producer: Roger Short

30 minutes

Last on

Tue 21 Jan 2020 19:00

Music Played

  • Johann Schrammel

    Waltz 'Im Wiener Dialekt'

    Orchestra: Upper Austria Concert-Schrammeln.
    • Gramola.
  • Franz Schubert

    Der Lindenbaum, D 911 No 5 (Winterreise)

    Performer: Christoph Berner. Singer: Werner G眉ra.
    • Schubert: Die Winterreise: Gura/Berner.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
    • 005.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony no. 12 in E major H.1.12: 3rd movement; Finale (Presto)

    Ensemble: Il Giardino Armonico. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.
    • ALPHA.
  • Leonhard Paminger

    Omnis mundus iocundetur - Resonet in laudibus

    Performer: Capella de la Torre. Director: Katharina B盲uml.
    • Ein Kindlein in der Wiegen.
    • Deutsche Harmonia Mundi.
  • Franz Schubert

    Die Forelle, D.550

    Music Arranger: Franz Liszt. Performer: Jorge Bolet.
    • Liszt: Schubert Song Transcriptions: Jorge Bolet.
    • Decca.
    • 1.
  • Franz Schubert

    Winterreise D911 - Der Leiermann

    Performer: Nata拧a Mirkovi膰-De Ro.
    • Raumklang.
  • Karl Kratzl

    Das Gluck is' a Vogerl

    Ensemble: Oberosterreichische Concert-Schrammeln. Director: Erwin Steinhauer.
    • Gluck is' a Vogerl.
    • Gramola.
    • 09.

Broadcast

  • Tue 21 Jan 2020 19:00

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