Your Weekend Brass

Your Weekend Brass

Whether your plans involve chores at home or an outdoor adventure, there’s no better soundtrack for your weekend than the power of glorious symphonic brass!

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Your Weekend Brass
  • Richard Strauss’s Also sprach Zarathustra

    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)
    Also sprach Zarat...

  • Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4

    Described by the composer as representing the inexorable power of fate, this symphony remains one of Tchaikovsky’s most forceful, fiery statements. This 2008 performance is conducted by then Music Director Lorin Maazel.

    TCHAIKOVSKY (1840–93)
    Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36 (1877)
    1. Andant...

  • Van Zweden Conducts Mahler

    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 ...

  • Mahler’s Seventh in A Concert for Unity

    This program reflects music’s ability to speak to harmony, unity, and shared humanity. Philharmonic musicians are joined by colleagues from around the world for Mahler’s epic Seventh Symphony, an evocation of the Romantic tradition through exquisite nocturnal nature-music.

    MAHLER (1860–1911)
    S...