Performer: The Vienna Boys' Choir

Fingers and bows fluttered through dance-like figures and virtuosic passages packed with trills with astonishing clarity and brilliance.

Here’s a choir that need never worry about attracting younger members. It runs its own school, with around 300 children, and from the age of ten the most musically gifted boys are channelled into the choir.

Over the centuries, pure angelic voices and truly remarkable vocal technique have brought the Vienna Boys Choir international acclaim and undying popularity. Founded in Austria over five hundred years ago, the oldest boys’ choir in the world embraces both old tradition and new vision.

Die Wiener Sängerknaben, zu deren ehemaligen Mitgliedern unter anderem Haydn und Schubert zählen, gehen auf das Jahr 1498 zurück und gehören damit zu den ehrwürdigsten Chororganisationen der Welt.