Daniel Harding conducts Strauss’s “Don Quixote”
The unworldly Don Quixote and his pragmatic servant Sancho Panza make an unlikely partnership. Inspired by Miguel de Cervantes’s famous chivalric novel, Richard Strauss humorously captures their bizarre adventures in his Don Quixote – including tone-painting effects during the windmill fight. Beforehand, Daniel Harding conducts Richard Wagner’s splendid Tannhäuser overture and Hans Werner Henze’s orchestral work Barcarola, which depicts the transition from life to death in sombre tones.
Berliner Philharmoniker
Daniel Harding
Diyang Mei
Ludwig Quandt
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