{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"","title":"Beethoven Unleashed: Beethoven and the Voice","description":"Donald Macleod explores Beethoven’s vocal music with Iain Burnside and Simone Young.\n \nIn this week’s episode, Donald Macleod and his guests discuss some personal favourites from Beethoven's vocal music, taking in the giants of choral repertory like the Missa Solemnis and the ninth symphony, his opera Fidelio and orchestral vocal music, as well as relishing the astonishing variety of his song-writing, from the song cycle An die Ferne Geliebte and the most profoundly moving vocal masterpieces, to a comic song most likely dashed off to amuse friends in a bar.\n\nComposer of the Week will be returning to the story of Beethoven’s life and music throughout 2020. Part of Radio 3’s Beethoven Unleashed season marking the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth.\n\nMusic Featured: \nChristus am Ölberge, Op 85 \nEin Selbstgespräch, WoO 144\nAdelaide, Op 46\nFuneral Cantata on the Death of Emperor Joseph II \nChristus am Olberge, Op 85 \nAus Goethes Faust, Op 75, No 3\nDer Wachtelschlag, WoO 129\nL'amante impaziente, Op 82 (a pair of settings)\nAh Perfido!, Op 65\nMass in C, Op 86 (Gloria, Sanctus & Benedictus)\nKlage, WoO 112\nNeue Liebe, neues Leben, WoO 127\nFantasia for Piano, Choir and Orchestra in C minor op 80 \nMusic, Love and Wine, Op 108, No 1\nLa Tiranna, WoO 125\nFidelio (Act 1), O welche Lust, in freier Luft (Prisoner’s Chorus)\nFidelio (Act 1, Abscheulicher! Wo eilst du hin?\nFidelio (Act 2), Introduction and Aria Gott! Welch’ Dunkel hier! In des Lebens Frühlingstagen\nAn die Hoffnung, Op 94\nMaigesang (Mailied), Op 52, No 4\nThree Lieder to poems by Goethe, Op 83\nDer glorreiche Augenblick, Op 136 (Final chorus: Es treten hervor die Scharen der Frauen)\nCantata on the Accession of Leopold II, WoO 88, Fliesse, Wonnezähre, fliesse!\nAn die ferne geliebte, Op 98\nMeerestille und glückliche Fahrt, Op 112\nDer Kuss, Op 128\nAbendlied unter dem gestirnten Himmel, WoO 150\nMissa Solemnis in D major, Op 123, Credo\nSymphony No 9 (4th movement) \n\nPresented by Donald Macleod \nProduced by Johannah Smith for BBC Wales\n\nFor full tracklistings, including artist and recording details, and to listen to the pieces featured in full (for 30 days after broadcast) head to the series page for Beethoven Unleashed: Beethoven and the Voice https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000hv23 \n\nAnd you can delve into the A-Z of all the composers we’ve featured on Composer of the Week here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3cjHdZlXwL7W41XGB77X3S0/composers-a-to-z","author_name":"BBC Radio 3"}