BBC Proms - 2009 - Prom 65: Ligeti, Mahler, Schoenberg, Strauss - Part 2

From the Royal Albert Hall, London. Presented by Martin Handley. Jonathan Nott conducts one of the world's top youth orchestras, the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester, in Richard Strauss' Also sprach Zarathustra, a work inspired by the philosophical writings of Friedrich Nietzsche, and famously, used by Stanley Kubrick to accompany images of space in his film 2001: A Space Odyssey. Matthias Goerne (baritone) Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester Jonathan Nott (conductor) Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra.