In this New Year’s Eve concert from 2018, Music Director Jaap van Zweden conducts a festive, upbeat excerpt from Wagner’s music-drama Lohengrin as well as J. Strauss II’s lyrical Blue Danube waltz.
WAGNER (1813–83)
Introduction to Act III of Lohengrin (1846–48)
J. STRAUSS II (1825–99)
An der schönen blauen Donau (On the Beautiful Blue Danube), Op. 314 (1866–67)
Schubert’s gifts as master of both song and instrumental music enriches this string quartet, with reinterpretations of some of his own songs — including Gretchen am Spinnrade and Schöne Welt, wo bist du — to form a new, beautiful whole.
SCHUBERT (1797 –1828)
String Quartet N...
