The Vienna Philharmonic is one of the great orchestras in the world...and one of the most unusual. They play horns and oboes no one else uses. All the major decisions affecting the orchestra are made by members of the orchestra. And they have no single conductor, they dispensed with that model in 1933. All their conductors are guests, serving at the pleasure of the orchestra. From a concert last month in Lucerne, Switzerland, the Vienna Philharmonic and guest conductor Franz Welser-Most perform the elegant (and cheeky) Symphony No. 98, by Haydn.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Emmanuel Chabrier: "Village Dance" from Suite Pastorale
The Vienna Philharmonic with conductor John Eliot Gardiner
Frederic Chopin: Polonaise in G Minor, KK. 889
Pianist Arthur Greene
Britton Recital Hall, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Henryk Wieniawski: Polonaise Brillante, Op. 4
Violinist Danielle Belen Nesmith and pianist Katherine Collier
Strings Music Festival, Steamboat Springs, Colorado
Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 98 in B-flat, Hob. I:98
The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra with conductor Franz Welser-Most
Culture and Congress Center, Lucerne, Switzerland
Ivan Marko Lukacic: "Quam Pulchra es" ("How Beautiful and Fair You Are")
The Sebastian String Quartet
Vatroslav Lisinski Hall, Zagreb, Croatia
Isaac Albeniz: "Triana" from "Iberia"
Pianist Martina Filjak
Rector's Palace, Dubrovnik, Croatia
Hour 2
Dmitri Shostakovich: Prelude and Fugue No. 21 in B-flat
Pianist Jenny Lin
Frank Bridge: Phantasie Quartet for Piano and Strings in F-sharp Minor, H. 94
Pianist Alon Goldstein, violinist Jun Iwasaki, violist David Harding, and cellist Ronald Thomas
Seattle Chamber Music Society Summer Festival, Seattle
Gyorgy Ligeti: Etude No. 18 ("Canon")
Pianist Jenny Lin
Spivey Hall, Morrow, Georgia
Behzad Ranjbaran: "Moto Perpetuo"
Violinist William Harvey and pianist Cory Smythe
Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
Edouard Lalo: Cello Concerto in D Minor
Cellist Xavier Phillips with the Spanish Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra and conductor Adrian Leaper
Teatro Monumental, Madrid, Spain
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