Performance on 3 - Performance on 3: Proms 2009 - Prom 74: Webern, Strauss, Brahms

Presented by Ian Skelly. In a concert from the Proms 2009 season, the Vienna Philharmonic under its distinguished long-term associate and honorary member Zubin Mehta reinvigorate Strauss's quintessentially quixotic set of 'fantastic variations on a theme of knightly character'. Brahms's final symphony also ends in a vast set of variations, his gloriously late-Romantic take on a Baroque-style passacaglia, using a theme borrowed from a Bach cantata. The concert begins with another Passacaglia - Webern's own late-Romantic influenced student work. Christian Frohn (viola) Tamas Varga (cello) Vienna Philharmonic Zubin Mehta (conductor) Webern: Passacaglia, Op 1 Strauss: Don Quixote Brahms: Symphony No 4 in E minor Hellmesberger: Lightfooted Johann Strauss: Tritsch-Tratsch Polka, op 214 Followed by more music from the Proms Plus concerts. John McCabe: Landscape (excerpt) Joshua Burke (violin) Anne Chauveau (cello) Luis Pares (piano) John McCabe: Cello Sonata Anne Chauveau (cello) Luis Pares (piano) John McCabe: Six Minute Symphony St Christopher Chamber Orchestra Donatas Katkus (conductor) Dutton Laboratories CDLX 7133 tr.13