Richard Strauss finished this tone poem at the age of 25, establishing himself as a master of the form and an innovator who had synthesized his own musical style. This performance from 1982 is conducted by then Music Director Zubin Mehta.
R. STRAUSS (1864–1949)
Don Juan, Tone Poem after Nikolaus Lenau, Op. 20 (1888)
Though he’s best known as a violin virtuoso, Fritz Kreisler was also a skilled composer who wrote several popular works. Three of his best known are featured here.
KREISLER (1875–1962)
Liebeslied (1954)
Schön Rosmarin (1912)
Liebesfreud (1941)
Music Director Jaap van Zweden leads the epic Fifth Symphony by his predecessor, Gustav Mahler. This five-movement symphonic tour de force encompasses intense passion, demonic energy, and breathtaking radiance.
MAHLER (1860–1911)
Symphony No. 5 (1901–02)
PART I
1. Trauermarsch: in gemessenem ...
Renowned soprano Jessye Norman performs Mahler’s Rückert-Lieder, a pensive set of orchestral songs meditating on love and death — perhaps Mahler’s favorite themes. Then she joins Zubin Mehta and the Orchestra in Wagner’s ecstatic aria of fatal love.
MAHLER (1860 –1911)
Five Late Songs ...
