Heidi Melton and Simon O’Neill are the lovers in this tale of burning passion and forbidden love. Music Director Jaap van Zweden conducts immense orchestral forces in Act I of Die Walküre, part of the epic Ring cycle, Wagner’s magnum opus that changed opera — and music — forever.
WAGNER (1813–1883)
Act I of Die Walküre
Richard Strauss marshals huge orchestral forces in his tone poem depicting the life of an unnamed hero. Andre Previn conducts this historic concert from 1976, the inaugural broadcast of Live From Lincoln Center.
R. STRAUSS (1864–1949)
Ein Heldenleben (A Hero’s Life), Tone Po...
The great André Watts joins the Philharmonic in 1977 to perform Brahms’s Second Piano Concerto. Brahms jokingly called this a “tiny little” concerto for piano and orchestra, despite its being one of the largest ever written. The legendary Erich Leinsdorf conducts.
BRAHMS (1833–97)
Concerto No....
From its iconic opening (famously used by Stanley Kubrick in 2001: A Space Odyssey) to its concluding chord evoking the mysteries of the universe, Strauss’s tone poem based on Nietzsche’s book of the same title is one of the composer’s best-known works.
R. STRAUSS (1864–1949)
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