: 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.