Presented by Louise Fryer. Series of programmes marking the 2008 centenary of the birth of the great Austrian conductor Herbert von Karajan. In a performance recorded at a Bach Festival in Vienna in 1950, Karajan conducts movements from Bach's B minor Mass, with the great British contralto Kathleen Ferrier. Plus an all-Beethoven concert under Bernard Haitink and a Bruckner Symphony conducted by Daniel Barenboim. Beethoven: Egmont Overture Beethoven: Triple Concerto Frank Peter Zimmermann (violin) Christian Poltera (cello) Lars Vogt (piano) Beethoven: Symphony No 5 Chamber Orchestra of Europe Bernard Haitink (conductor) Bach: Mass in B minor (excerpts) Kathleen Ferrier (contralto) Grand Chorus of the 'Singverein der Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde Wiener Symphoniker' Vienna Symphony Orchestra Herbert von Karajan (conductor) Bruckner: Symphony No 9 Berlin Staatskapelle Daniel Barenboim (conductor).