Prom 74 - R Strauss, Brahms [BBC Proms]

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01Part 120090911From the Royal Albert Hall, London. Presented by Petroc Trelawny.

The Vienna Philharmonic is conducted by its distinguished long-term associate and honorary member Zubin Mehta. Together they perfom Webern's late Romantic-influenced Passacaglia before Strauss' quintessentially quixotic set of 'fantastic variations on a theme of knightly character'.

Christian Frohn (viola)

Tamas Varga (cello)

Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

Zubin Mehta (conductor)

Webern: Passacaglia, Op 1

R Strauss: Don Quixote.

Vienna Philharmonic/Zubin Mehta in Strauss' Don Quixote and Webern's Passacaglia.

02Part 220090911From the Royal Albert Hall, London. Presented by Petroc Trelawny.

Zubin Mehta conducts the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in Brahms' final symphony, which 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.

Zubin Mehta (conductor)

Brahms: Symphony No 4 in E minor.

Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra/Zubin Mehta in Brahms' Symphony No 4 in E minor.