Two or three young aspiring musicians. Dont do it a little Bit. If you do it, do it with conviction. Yes. Again. Preparing them for auditions to become a member in our orchestra. The one thing that sets us apart from others, i think, is our history. The sound of the Vienna Philharmonic is special because of all our great composers who shaped our sounds. We had members who played in the first performance of beethovens ninth symphony conducted by beethoven. So these people brought the knowledge how beethoven wanted his music to be played into our orchestras. Now this happens from beethoven now this happens from beethoven to brahms, bruckner, to brahms, bruckner, mahler, richard strauss, mahler, richard strauss, our collective memory. John williams. John williams. And i think that shaped and i think that shaped our collective memory. Today we have three of our academists here to get a masterclass. Two violinists, one flute player. Our academy is a Training Programme for young musicians to
Now on Bbc News arts in motion Vienna Philharmonic. Classical music plays austria is known for classical music, from Haydn And Mozart until schoenberg. This is our heritage and this is also our duty to perform in the very best way that we can do. We are members of the Vienna Philharmonic, special orchestra, a group of unique musicians making music together since 183 years. Today we will be hosting a Masterclass Given by our member. You need to have more emotion. Two or three young aspiring musicians. Dont do it a little Bit. If you do it, do it with conviction. Yes. L again. Preparing them for auditions to become a member in our orchestra. The one thing that sets us apart from others, i think, is our history. The sound of the Vienna Philharmonic is special because of all our great composers who shaped our sounds. We had members who played in the first performance of beethovens ninth symphony conducted by beethoven. So these people brought the knowledge how beethoven wanted his music to
as an excuse to build new coal mines. he was speaking at a un climate change summit where delegates are seeking ways of reducing carbon dioxide emissions. now on bbc news, it s hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. much of the world is now transitioning from locking down to living with covid 19, and that means that, in cities like london, cultural life is returning, performers are back on stage, audiences can gather to enjoy them. my guest today is the world renowned hungarian conductor and composer, ivan fischer, known for his innovative style. it has been a tough couple of years, so how easy is it to find the magic in music making? ivan fischer, welcome to hardtalk. lovely to be here. it s great to have you here in london. let me ask you how different has it been making music in the time of covid? covid had positive and negative effects on our life. the problem was that there is no audience and actually we make music for people. this is actually easy for musi
world renowned hungarian conductor and composer ivan fischer, known for his innovative style. it has been a tough couple of years, so how easy is it to find the magic in music making? ivan fischer, welcome to hardtalk. lovely to be here. it s great to have you here in london. let me ask you, how different has it been making music in the time of covid? covid had positive and negative effects on our life. the problem was that there is no audience and actually we make music for people. this is actually easy for musicians to forget. some musicians make music to impress other musicians, and we always, i remind them, we play for the audiences, we play for the listeners. and this is what we didn t have. that was terrible. now the good thing is that, actually, it made us realise how badly we need the audiences. i think there is a streaming tiredness in the world now. because for many months after covid hit hungary, hit europe, hit the world, you created a new way of performing in y
and the danger is that orchestras play a limited repertoire the last maybe 200 years, the music of the last 200 years. now, what will happen in 500 years, will we still listen to those 200 years? i don t think so. don t you, really? no, i think we have to reform. the idea that you mentioned earlier, playing beethoven s ninth, i mean, to take that as just one of the best known pieces of music in the world, everybody really thinks of it as completely timeless, that as long as there is human civilisation, there will be beethoven, there will be bach, there will be mozart. are you saying maybe we re wrong? if you sit in your car and you open the radio, what do you hear? you hear a bit of beethoven, you hear a bit of bruckner, and you hear heavy metal and you hear indian ragas and you hear rap songs. it s a mix. this is our language today,