Deutsche Welle Festival: Best of the Beethovenfest

8.00 Deutsche Welle Festival: Best of the Beethovenfest

Even with the impact of the coronavirus on music life in Germany, Deutsche Welle has been able to fill most of the programmes with fresh concert recordings. But this time they're taking a look back at Deutsche Welle's two decade-long year media partnership with the Beethovenfest in Bonn. In a "Best of the Beethovenfest," Beethoven, Haydn, Franck and Bruckner are brought to life by Harnoncourt, Dudamel, Brendel, Rattle, Masur and Norrington.

Sir Simon Rattle Photo: Supplied by Deutsche Welle

Programme:

HAYDN: Symphony No 85 in Bb (The Queen) (1);

FRANCK: Symphony in D minor (2, 3);

BEETHOVEN: Symphony No 7 in A Op 92 (2, 3, 4);

BRUCKNER: Symphony No 6 (1);

BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No 4 in G Op 58

Concentus Musicus Vienna/Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Orchestre Nationale de France/Kurt Masur, Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela/Gustavo Dudamel, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment/Roger Norrington, Alfred Brendel (piano), Vienna Philharmonic/Simon Rattle

Recorded at the Beethoven Hall, Bonn (Deutsche Welle)

This is the final programme of the current series.