RCO: Nelsons Conducts Wagner and Strauss
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
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1h 24m
The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestras’s 125th anniversary celebrations in 2013 concluded with a Christmas Matinee concert in style. Andris Nelsons conducts music by Richard Wagner and Richard Strauss, another titan featured on the programme who himself conducted his symphonic poem Also sprach Zarathustra no fewer than three times in Amsterdam.
Composer: Richard Wagner, Richard Strauss
Conductor: Andris Nelsons
Venue: Concertgebouw Amsterdam
Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Program: Wagner - Siegfried Idyll / Overture and Venusberg Music (Bacchanale) from Tannhäuser; Strauss - Also sprach Zarathustra
Genre: Concert
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