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Vienna Philharmonic at the Salzburg Festival

The Vienna Philharmonic is conducted by 94-year-old Herbert Blomstedt in Honegger's Symphonie Liturgique and Brahms's Fourth Symphony.

The Vienna Philharmonic at the Salzburg Festival.

The legendary orchestra is conducted in Salzburg's Festpielhaus by the eminent 94-year-old Herbert Blomstedt in two works particularly close to his heart. Written in the aftermath of the Second World War and with movements titles taken from the Roman Catholic Mass and the Psalms, Honegger wrote of his Symphonie Liturgique that: "It is a drama in which three characters 鈥 real or symbolic 鈥 play: misery, happiness and man. It is an eternal problem. I have tried to face it anew.鈥
Presented by Fiona Talkington.

Honegger: Symphony No.3 "Liturgical"

c. 8.00pm.
Interval music: Murray Perahia plays Brahms's Autumnal 4 pieces for piano, Op.119

at 8.20pm
Brahms: Symphony No.4 in E minor, Op.98

Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Herbert Blomstedt (conductor)

Recorded at Grosses Festspielhaus, Salzburg, Austria on 29 August 2021

Image: 漏 SF / Marco Borrelli

2 hours, 28 minutes

Music Played

  • Toumani Diabat茅

    Mama Souraka

    Performer: Toumani Diabat茅. Performer: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Clark Rundell.
    • World Circuit.
  • Arthur Honegger

    Symphony No. 3 'Liturgique'

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Herbert Blomstedt.
  • Johannes Brahms

    4 Pieces, Op.119

    Performer: Murray Perahia.
    • Murray Perahia plays Brahms and Schubert.
    • Sony.
    • 1.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op.98

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Herbert Blomstedt.
  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Scheherazade, Op 35

    Conductor: Valery Gergiev. Orchestra: Mariinsky Orchestra.
    • Rimsky-Korsakov: Sheherazade etc: Kirov Orchestra/Gergiev.
    • Philips.
    • 1.
  • Joshua Borin

    Nature is returning

    Performer: Alexander Soares. Singer: Helen Charleston.
    • Delphian.

Broadcast

  • Mon 3 Jan 2022 19:30