Weimar 99
Broadcast over the weekend 28/29 August 1999
Presented by John Tusa and others
Produced by Martin Cotton
 1 A Walk through Weimar
John Tusa, now Director of the Barbican
Centre in London, and Professor Jim Reed of Oxford University
took us on a three-hour walk through Weimar, visiting its
most famous (and infamous) sites and monuments, including the
Herder Church, the Goethehaus, the Schillerhaus, the Anna Amalia
Library, the Schloss, the Park on the Ilm with Goethe’s
Garden House, the Liszt Museum, the Bauhaus Museum, the ducal
vault where Goethe and Schiller lie buried, and finally Buchenwald
concentration camp, built only a few miles from the city.
2 Faust
Martin Swales, Professor of German of UCL, tells the story
of the Faust legend, with excursions into the world of
music. He traces the story’s development from its medieval origins
through Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus and Mary Shelley’s
Frankenstein to more recent incarnations in Adler & Ross’s
`Damn Yankees’ and Randy Newman’s album `Faust’.
With comments from Jim Reed, Alexandra Richie, Philippa Gregory
and Philip Hensher, readings by Jonathan Keeble and Siri O’Neal,
and Faust-related music by (among others) Boito, Berlioz, Busoni,
Koeber & Minach, Scanlon & Smith, Liszt, Eben, Beethoven,,
Gounod, Mussorgsky, Schumann, Randy Newman, Boulanger, Mahler,
Schubert and Dudley Moore.
 3 Celebrity Recital
Goethe – Life, Love and Music
John Tusa introduces a recital of Goethe song settings given
at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London early in 1999.
Thomas Allen (baritone)
Solveig Kringelborn (soprano)
Roger Vignoles (piano)
Part I
Beethoven: Mailied; Wonne der Wehmut; Neue Liebe, Neues
Leben
Schubert: Geheimes; Auf dem See; An Schwanger Kronos
Liszt: Uber allen Gipfeln ist Ruh; Freudvoll und Leidvoll;
Der Konig in Thule
Loewe: Erlkonig; Gutmann und Gutweib; Der Zauberlehring
(Interval feature) Goethe and Song
Richard Stokes discusses Goethe’s ambivalent attitude
to musical settings of his verse.
Part II
Settings by Schubert, Schumann and Wolf of songs from
`Wilhelm Meister’s years of Wandering’, with readings
by actor Sam West from Goethe’s novel in a translation
by Roger Vignoles.
4 The Magnetic Mountain
Liszt described Weimar
as a `magnetic mountain’, drawing
in musicians and composers from all over Europe. John Tusa
introduces music written by famous Weimar visitors and residents.
Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No.3 in G, BWV1048
Liszt: Prelude and Fugue for organ on the name BACH
Strauss: Suite in B flat for 13 wind instruments
Hindemith: Kleine Kammermusik for wind quintet (1922)
5 Sunday Feature: Weimar 99
John
Tusa talks to Dr Christopher Clark of the University of Cambridge
and to Weimar residents from different walks of life to explore
how the present-day city is finally laying its ghosts, and
how life in Germany has changed since re-unification.
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