Vienna_philharmonic_strauss_wiener_blut_walzer_... May 2026

: Conducted by Andris Nelsons as part of the Summer Night Concert program.

: This piece marked Strauss's long-awaited debut with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra . For years, the elite ensemble had dismissed him as a composer of "light" music, but "Wiener Blut" finally bridged the gap between popular dance music and high-art symphonic performance.

: Zubin Mehta famously conducted the piece at the Heldenplatz in 1999 and again at Schönbrunn in 2015.

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