Live from Vienna Sunday April 3 2011

[Petrushka]

This coming Sunday there is a corker of a programme given by the VPO conducted by Franz Welser-Most with Dame Gillian Weir at the console of the Musikverein organ. The programme is:

Barber: Toccata Festiva
Poulenc: Concerto for Organ, Strings and Timpani
Strauss: Eine Alpensinfonie

It is being broadcast live on ORF1 at 10:03 BST: http://oe1.orf.at/

Just click on the 'live' box top right on Sunday morning or listen later on the on-demand facility.

[Nick Armstrong]

Great steer generally, that site, Petrushka! Never visited it before, just enjoying some play-it-again action from their equivalent of 'Breakfast'. Sounds good.

Thanks - and the Sunday concert sounds a goodie.

[Petrushka]

Great steer generally, that site, Petrushka! Never visited it before, just enjoying some play-it-again action from their equivalent of 'Breakfast'. Sounds good.

Thanks - and the Sunday concert sounds a goodie.

Even for those, like me, with basic German the ORF1 site is fairly easy to navigate and even easier if you use Google Translate. The live VPO concerts on Sunday mornings (interspersed with other concerts when the VPO is out of town) are a special joy and the sound is superb.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

What? A live concert with the VPO of Strauss's Eine Alpensinfonie?



But my German isn't basic. I barely know a dozen words.

[BBMmk2]

You have to listen to that performance at all costs, EA!!How could you not?

I will definetily try!

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

You have to listen to that performance at all costs, EA!

I know, I know. I'm just a bit worried about what to click on. Presumably the "play" button just before it starts?

[Norfolk Born]

I've just visited the site, clicked on 'Live' and there it was. Thanks for the link, by the way.
EDIT: I've just checked out the English translation of the home page and would give it a 'B++' overall, and the programme details an 'A-'. Trust me - I'm a linguist!

[aeolium]

This coming Sunday there is a corker of a programme given by the VPO conducted by Franz Welser-Most with Dame Gillian Weir at the console of the Musikverein organ.

It is being broadcast live on ORF1 at 10:03 BST

How much better that schedule is than the typical R3 Sunday morning fare

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

How much better that schedule is than the typical R3 Sunday morning fare

How very true.

[BBMmk2]

How very true.

Uplift all to Vienna on Sundays?

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Ot the BBC could arrange to broadcast the concerts live, just as they to the Met operas on Saturdays.

[Flosshilde]

But my German isn't basic. I barely know a dozen words.

More than me, then, Alpen! but I've just looked at the site & the 'Live' button is quite clear.

They are also doing a live broadcast of 'Anna Bolena' starring Anna Netrebko - let's hope she turns up

[joseph green]

Why bother with Radio 3 on Sundays

Not only can you pick up the ORF relays of Sunday morning concerts from Vienna, but they usually finish in time for you to hear the regular Concertgebouw Orchestra concerts on Netherlands Radio 4 which start, in good quality sound at 1300. From there you could try Norwegian radio which regularly broadcasts recordings of live concerts, the New York Phil which stores two weeks of live broadcasts, and the Chicago Symphony 6 weeks of recordings on their websites. French Radio also now has a listen again facility (so do the Dutch). With all these facilities will you have time to listen to Radio 3. Or you could establish links with some foreign friends and get, as I do, MP3s of recordings made from FM/Digital. There is so much material out there you could go without Radio 3 for ever!...