Emerge into spring with two staples of the orchestral canon, performed by the SOB on April 20. Connected by Beethoven’s famous Marcia funebre from the second movement of his Eroica Symphony, Strauss’s Metamorphosen is a study for 23 solo instruments (10 violins, 5 violas, 5 cellos, and 3 double basses) quoting and transforming a vast array of musical material from his predecessors.

Richard Strauss | Metamorphosen, study for 23 solo strings, 1945
Ludwig Van Beethoven | Symphony No. 3 (Sinfonia Eroica), 1804

conducted by Eli Spindel