Zubin Mehta conducts Strauss and Rimsky-Korsakov

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Zubin Mehta
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Richard Strauss
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

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Composition History

Richard Strauss began sketching his Symphonia Domestica in May 1902 while resting on the Isle of Wight after a conducting tour of England.

Composition History

Rimsky-Korsakov composed Scheherazade in 1888, drawing on tales from One Thousand and One Nights, a collection of West and South Asian folk tales.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Richard Strauss described his Symphonia Domestica as 'a musical picture of married life', sometimes humorous and sometimes deeply serious.

Performer Biography

Zubin Mehta, the conductor, served as Music Director of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra for 50 years, celebrating his farewell in October 2019.

Compositional Technique

Richard Strauss's Symphonia Domestica is scored for a very large orchestra, including quadruple woodwind, a fifth clarinet, and eight horns.

Performer Biography

The London Philharmonic Orchestra, founded by Sir Thomas Beecham in 1932, has been the Resident Orchestra at Southbank Centre's Royal Festival Hall since 1992.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Rimsky-Korsakov intended for Scheherazade to evoke an Oriental narrative of fairytale wonders, rather than directly illustrate specific events from One Thousand and One Nights.