Richard Strauss’s massive, mesmerizing masterpiece, Also Sprach Zarathustra, contemplates human existence, and the opening is instantly recognizable from the film 2001: A Space Odyssey. Liszt takes on the journey of life, love, and destiny in his lush Les Préludes before we indulge in his light-hearted and famous Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2.
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