0:04:31 > 0:04:36MUSIC: "The Grand March" from Aida by Verdi
0:08:10 > 0:08:11APPLAUSE
0:08:11 > 0:08:14A wonderful way to start this Summer Night's Concert
0:08:14 > 0:08:19from the beautiful but rain-soaked gardens of the Schonbrunn Palace in Vienna.
0:08:19 > 0:08:22The Grand March from the opera Aida by Verdi.
0:08:22 > 0:08:25This year, the concert is a 200th birthday tribute
0:08:25 > 0:08:28to Verdi and Wagner.
0:20:58 > 0:21:00APPLAUSE
0:21:00 > 0:21:02The overture to The Mastersingers of Nuremberg
0:21:02 > 0:21:05played by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
0:21:05 > 0:21:06and Lorin Maazel.
0:21:06 > 0:21:08Wagner's Mastersingers
0:21:08 > 0:21:10is one of the longest works of German opera.
0:21:10 > 0:21:14That overture is usually the start of a four-and-a-half hour marathon
0:21:14 > 0:21:16in the opera house.
0:21:16 > 0:21:19Appearing next is the Canadian tenor Michael Schade,
0:21:19 > 0:21:22to sing a famous aria from one of Verdi's earlier operas,
0:21:22 > 0:21:23I Lombardi.
0:21:23 > 0:21:26It's a love song, "La Mia Letizia Infondere".
0:24:34 > 0:24:35APPLAUSE
0:24:35 > 0:24:37Michael Schade, the tenor, singing
0:24:37 > 0:24:41the ardent love song "La Mia Letizia Infondere" by Verdi.
0:24:41 > 0:24:44After Verdi, we come back to Wagner,
0:24:44 > 0:24:47the other 200-year-old birthday boy, and the music
0:24:47 > 0:24:49in Wagner's Tristan and Isolde
0:24:49 > 0:24:53expresses an intoxicating blend of passionate love and death.
0:45:36 > 0:45:38APPLAUSE
0:45:38 > 0:45:43The Prelude and Liebestod from Wagner's Tristan and Isolde.
0:45:43 > 0:45:46It's an opera full of overwhelmingly passionate music
0:45:46 > 0:45:48and was played there by great fervour
0:45:48 > 0:45:50by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
0:45:50 > 0:45:54under the baton of the great maestro Lorin Maazel.
0:45:54 > 0:45:57Despite the weather, we're still getting some extraordinary views
0:45:57 > 0:46:01of these wonderful gardens at the Palace of Schonbrunn in Vienna.
0:46:01 > 0:46:03We'll return now to Verdi,
0:46:03 > 0:46:06the overture to his opera Luisa Miller,
0:46:06 > 0:46:09based on a play by Schiller, the poet who wrote the Ode To Joy.
0:52:48 > 0:52:52APPLAUSE
0:52:52 > 0:52:54The overture to Luisa Miller
0:52:54 > 0:52:56conducted by Lorin Maazel
0:52:56 > 0:52:58and played by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.
0:52:58 > 0:53:02Lovely playing by the principal clarinettist there.
0:53:02 > 0:53:03Wagner's opera Lohengrin
0:53:03 > 0:53:07is a tale of Knights of the Round Table, the Holy Grail,
0:53:07 > 0:53:09chivalry, love and honour.
0:53:09 > 0:53:11Michael Schade now returns to sing
0:53:11 > 0:53:14that story of the hero Lohengrin
0:53:14 > 0:53:16who cannot reveal his identity.
0:53:16 > 0:53:17Towards the end of the opera,
0:53:17 > 0:53:19he is forced to say who he is,
0:53:19 > 0:53:21a servant of the Holy Grail,
0:53:21 > 0:53:24and tragically, he must then leave the woman he loves.
1:00:35 > 1:00:38APPLAUSE
1:00:38 > 1:00:42Michael Schade singing that moving and powerful confessional
1:00:42 > 1:00:45from the opera Lohengrin by Richard Wagner.
1:00:45 > 1:00:47He was accompanied by Lorin Maazel
1:00:47 > 1:00:50and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.
1:00:50 > 1:00:55Next, we'll hear the overture to Verdi's opera The Force of Destiny.
1:00:55 > 1:00:57It's a tragic melodrama
1:00:57 > 1:00:59with music of driving intensity.
1:00:59 > 1:01:00At the start of the overture,
1:01:00 > 1:01:03we hear the Fate theme - three chords blasted out
1:01:03 > 1:01:05by the brass.
1:09:22 > 1:09:24APPLAUSE
1:09:24 > 1:09:28The overture to Verdi's Force of Destiny, one of the wilder pieces
1:09:28 > 1:09:30of music that he composed.
1:09:30 > 1:09:34Well, if it's wildness you want, guess what's next.
1:09:34 > 1:09:38Used in everything from circus music to propaganda,
1:09:38 > 1:09:40from the film Apocalypse Now to The Simpsons,
1:09:40 > 1:09:43it represents the crazed daughters of the god Wotan
1:09:43 > 1:09:45galloping through the skies.
1:09:45 > 1:09:47It has to be The Ride of the Valkyries.
1:15:40 > 1:15:42APPLAUSE
1:15:42 > 1:15:45Wagner's unmistakable Ride of the Valkyries,
1:15:45 > 1:15:48played with the greatest panache by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
1:15:48 > 1:15:50and the conductor Lorin Maazel.
1:15:50 > 1:15:52The Palace of Schonbrunn
1:15:52 > 1:15:55has always hosted the greatest musicians.
1:15:55 > 1:15:56At the time of the Empress Maria,
1:15:56 > 1:15:59there were always musical gardens parties,
1:15:59 > 1:16:02although probably held in slightly better conditions than this.
1:16:02 > 1:16:04Mozart played here as a child prodigy
1:16:04 > 1:16:07and then had one of his early operas premiered here.
1:16:07 > 1:16:11So, the orchestra is in a long line of extraordinary musicians.
1:16:11 > 1:16:13APPLAUSE CONTINUES
1:16:13 > 1:16:16To get some warmth coursing through the audience's veins again,
1:16:16 > 1:16:20the concert closes with Wiener Blut - "Vienna Blood".
1:16:20 > 1:16:23No-one plays this music better than the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
1:16:23 > 1:16:26with their concertmaster Rainer Kuchl.
1:16:27 > 1:16:30To conduct them, here is Lorin Maazel once again.
1:26:38 > 1:26:40APPLAUSE
1:26:41 > 1:26:44What better way to end the summer concert from the gardens of
1:26:44 > 1:26:47the Palace of Schonbrunn than a signature piece from Viennese
1:26:47 > 1:26:48music tradition?
1:26:48 > 1:26:50Wiener Blut - "Vienna Blood".
1:26:54 > 1:26:56APPLAUSE CONTINUES
1:26:56 > 1:26:59Lorin Maazel conducted the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
1:26:59 > 1:27:02with their concertmaster Rainer Kuchl
1:27:02 > 1:27:04and despite the weather, the orchestra played beautifully.
1:27:04 > 1:27:09The eternally brave Austrians came to enjoy their final waltz
1:27:09 > 1:27:12and we were able to see the glories of this extraordinary location.
1:27:12 > 1:27:14We'll look forward to seeing this orchestra again
1:27:14 > 1:27:17at the New Year's Day concert, 2014.
1:27:17 > 1:27:19But from me, Katie Derham, goodbye.
1:27:19 > 1:27:23APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
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