Music
The Berlin Philharmonic: The Digital Concert Hall

Final Concert 2019

Mon, 12/02/2019
12:00 PM Goethe-Institut Chicago

Zubin Mehta conducts Strauss and Beethoven

Berliner Philharmoniker
Conductor: Zubin Mehta
Soloists: Amihai Grosz, Ludwig Quandt

Richard Strauss
Don Quixote, Symphonic Poem, op. 35
Amihai Grosz viola
Ludwig Quandt cello

Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, op. 55 Eroica

Don Quixote, Op. 35 is a tone poem by Richard Strauss for cello, viola, and orchestra. Subtitled Fantastic Variations on a Theme of Knightly Character, the work is based on the novel Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes. Concluding the concert is Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3, op. 55, Eroica. One of the composer's most celebrated works, the Eroica symphony is a large-scale composition that marked the beginning of Beethoven's creative middle-period.