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Performance on 3: Proms 2009

08/01/2010

Prom 74: Webern, Strauss, Brahms

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Zubin Mehta conducts the Vienna Philharmonic in Webern, Strauss and Brahms.

Ian Skelly presents Zubin Mehta at the Proms 2009 conducting the Vienna Philharmonic in Webern's Passacaglia, Richard Strauss's Don Quixote and Brahms's Symphony No 4 in E minor.

Presented by Ian Skelly.

In a concert from the Proms 2009 season, the Vienna Philharmonic under its distinguished long-term associate and honorary member Zubin Mehta reinvigorate Strauss's quintessentially quixotic set of 'fantastic variations on a theme of knightly character'.

Brahms's final symphony also ends in a vast set of variations, his gloriously late-Romantic take on a Baroque-style passacaglia, using a theme borrowed from a Bach cantata.

The concert begins with another Passacaglia - Webern's own late-Romantic influenced student work.

Christian Frohn (viola)
Tamas Varga (cello)
Vienna Philharmonic
Zubin Mehta (conductor) 

Webern: Passacaglia, Op 1
Strauss: Don Quixote
Brahms: Symphony No 4 in E minor
Hellmesberger: Lightfooted
Johann Strauss: Tritsch-Tratsch Polka, op 214

Followed by more music from the Proms Plus concerts.

John McCabe: Landscape (excerpt)
Joshua Burke (violin)
Anne Chauveau (cello)
Luis Pares (piano)

John McCabe: Cello Sonata
Anne Chauveau (cello)
Luis Pares (piano)

John McCabe: Six Minute Symphony
St Christopher Chamber Orchestra
Donatas Katkus (conductor)
Dutton Laboratories CDLX 7133 tr.13

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Another chance to hear concerts given as part of the BBC Proms 2009 season

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