BBC National Orchestra of Wales
1 June 2023
Things to Do
Things to Do 
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Uncharacteristically Mozart in style, Principal Conductor Ryan Bancroft’s 39th Symphony’s slow and grand opening leads to an energetic allegro; a drifting andante bounds into the energetic Minuet, before jumping into the monothematic finale. Strauss often used a story to stimulate his musical imagination, and Don Quixote provides more than adequate food for thought.
Featuring a solo cello as Don Quixote, and solo viola as his servant, Sancho, Strauss tells of the Don’s many escapades in this slightly barmy 10 movement tone poem.
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