Classical Destinations - Season 1

Classical Destinations - Season 1

Season 1

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Episodes13
DatesJan 22, 2006 - Apr 16, 2006
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Episodes

Salzburg: Birthplace of Amadeus
Season 1Episode 130 min

Salzburg: Birthplace of Amadeus

The hills around Salzburg were alive long before Julie Andrews started running up them! Simon, Niki and Matt introduce you to the birthplace of classical music's ultimate superstar, and tell of the infant Amadeus' most prodigious exploits. The city of the Salzburg Festival, the famous puppet shows, and the belated arrival there of the musical with which Hollywood took Salzburg to the world.
 

Jan 22, 2006
Across Austria to Vienna
Season 1Episode 230 min

Across Austria to Vienna

Simon, Niki and Matt follow Mozart through magnificent Austrian countryside from Salzburg to imperial Vienna, the irresistible magnet for composers such as Brahms, Mahler, Schubert and Haydn. Their stories and their relationship with the magnificent Habsburg capital are described amid the city's great landmarks.
 

Jan 29, 2006
The Real Song of Norway
Season 1Episode 330 min

The Real Song of Norway

A journey through the spectacular mountains, ravines and fjords of Norway, ending in the capital of Oslo, as we follow the life of the country's most beloved composer – Edvard Grieg.
 

Feb 5, 2006
Finlandia
Season 1Episode 430 min

Finlandia

The elemental sights and sounds of Finland, from Helsinki to the snowy vistas of Lapland where Santa has his workshop, are captured in the music of Sibelius. We hear the story of the Finnish musical legend, visit the composer's home of Ainola, and hear his most famous musical work.
 

Feb 12, 2006
St Petersburg
Season 1Episode 530 min

St Petersburg

Former capital of Russia, with its canals earning it the description ‘Venice of the North', St Petersburg was also home to the composers Borodin, Glinka, Mussorgsky, and the naval officer turned musical painter of the Arabian Nights, Rimsky-Korsakov.
 

Feb 19, 2006
Venice, Vivaldi and The Four Seasons
Season 1Episode 630 min

Venice, Vivaldi and The Four Seasons

Antonio Vivaldi spent his most productive years in Venice in the early 18th century. Simon, Niki and Matt tour the canals, bridges and piazzas for which Vivaldi created the perfect soundtrack in his Four Seasons.
 

Feb 26, 2006
Prague
Season 1Episode 730 min

Prague

Smetana serenaded its river; Dvorak started out as a dance band fiddler; Mozart enjoyed his greatest successes here. We visit the Old Town, where Simon Callow reminisces about filming Amadeus in its beautifully preserved streets.
 

Mar 5, 2006
Germany 1 - Eisenach and the Towns of Bach's Travels
Season 1Episode 830 min

Germany 1 - Eisenach and the Towns of Bach's Travels

The young J.S. Bach's career path though eastern Germany from his birthplace in Eisenach to Arnstadt and Weimar. In the Wartburg castle we learn about Martin Luther and the birth of the Reformation.
 

Mar 12, 2006
Germany 2 - Leipzig and Mainz
Season 1Episode 930 min

Germany 2 - Leipzig and Mainz

The careers of Bach and Mendelssohn reached their height in Leipzig. Niki performs part of Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto, and we visit the publishers Schott in the city of Mainz to learn the craft of music engraving and look at the original manuscript of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.
 

Mar 19, 2006
Vienna
Season 1Episode 1030 min

Vienna

The last difficult years of Mozart's short life; Beethoven's tragic deafness; the glamorous but turbulent life of the great ‘Waltz King', Johann Strauss the Younger – all these took place in Vienna. Niki exchanges her violin bow for a baton to conduct the Blue Danube with a virtual orchestra in the House of Music.
 

Mar 26, 2006
Tuscany: Verdi and Puccini
Season 1Episode 1130 min

Tuscany: Verdi and Puccini

More than just one of Italy's most beautiful regions, Tuscany also produced two of the greatest operatic composers. We visit the cities and towns that shaped their lives: Lucca, Pisa, and Milan. Also, there is a tour of the Puccini Villa in the spectacular Torre del Lago.
 

Apr 2, 2006
Bonn and Berlin
Season 1Episode 1230 min

Bonn and Berlin

We follow Beethoven's troubled early life in his birthplace of Bonn, near which descendents of his family still live and work as winemakers. Then to an indisputably modern city: Berlin, home to one of the world's greatest orchestras.

Apr 9, 2006
St Petersburg
Season 1Episode 1330 min

St Petersburg

In the series finale we return to St Petersburg to meet review some significant figures in its history: Pushkin, Catherine the Great, and Rasputin. Our last tour to a Classical Destination features the music of the composers Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky.
 

Apr 16, 2006

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