Episodes
Episode | Title | First Broadcast | Comments |
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01 | Part 1 | 20090911 | From 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. |
02 | Part 2 | 20090911 | From 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. |