BBC Proms 2017 Prom 74 Vienna Philharmonic - Brahms, Mozart and Beethoven (320 kbps .mp3)

BBC Proms 2017 Prom 74 Vienna Philharmonic - Brahms, Mozart and Beethoven (320 kbps .mp3)

Live at BBC Proms: the Vienna Philharmonic conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas in Brahms and Beethoven, and joined by Emanuel Ax in Mozart's Piano Concerto K449.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Martin Handley

00. Introductory commentary
01. Brahms - Variations on the St Anthony Chorale
02. Mozart - Piano Concerto No 14 in E flat K449
02i. Introduction to Mozart’s Piano Concerto No 14
03. Schubert - Impromptu in A flat Op140 No.2 (encore)
04. Beethoven - Symphony No 7 in A
04i. Introduction to Beethoven’s Symphony No 7
05. Delius - On hearing the first cuckoo in spring (encore)
06. Interval, Proms Extra - Vienna
Presenter Clemency Burton-Hill discusses the cultural context of Vienna during the 18th and 19th centuries with Austrian expert Gavin Plumley and Professor David Wyn Jones, author of the book 'Music in Vienna: 1700, 1800, 1900'.

Emanuel Ax (piano)
Vienna Philharmonic
Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor)

Michael Tilson Thomas and pianist Emanuel Ax join the Vienna Philharmonic for the orchestra's second concert this season - a programme filled with song and dance.

Wagner famously described Beethoven's Symphony No. 7 as 'the apotheosis of the dance', and it's hard to hear the breathless Scherzo or exuberant finale without becoming swept up in the work's restless energy.

That energy also invigorates Brahms's Variations, taking a theme once thought to be by Haydn and transforming it by turns into a graceful sicilienne and a swaying, syncopated dance.

For Mozart it is song that offers the inspiration for his dramatic Piano Concerto No. 14, with its arching melodies and almost operatic musical dialogues between soloist and orchestra.

Broadcast: 8 September 2017