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1. Music in Its Time - Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks

   10/10 The spectacular state-of-the-art first performance of Handel's Royal Fireworks.
2. Music in Its Time - Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 4

   9/10 Stephen Johnson on Beethoven's decision to unveil three new works at one public concert.
3. Music in Its Time - Shostakovich: Symphony No 5

   8/10 Stephen Johnson considers how Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony surprised its audience.
4. Music in Its Time - Byrd: Mass for Four Voices

   7/10 The secret performances of Byrd's masses in Elizabethan England.
5. Music in Its Time - Mahler's Symphony No 8

   6/10 The 1910 premiere of Mahler's Eighth Symphony, for which he hired impresario Emil Gutman.
6. The Firebird

   5/10 Stephen Johnson on the reactions of the first audiences to Stravinsky's The Firebird.
7. Bach: St Matthew Passion

   4/10 Exploring the impact of Bach's St Matthew Passion on its first audiences in Leipzig.
8. Scenes from Childhood

   3/10 Exploring how Schumann's Scenes from Childhood were listened to by their first audiences.
9. Victoria: Lamentations

   2/10 Exploring the impact of Victoria's Lamentations on listeners in Counter-Reformation Rome.
10. Haydn: Symphony No 100 (Military)

    1/10 Exploring the impact of Haydn's Military Symphony on its first audiences in 1790s London.