![]() OPERETTAS: Indigo und die vierzig Räuber (1871) Der Karneval in Rom (1873) Die Fledermaus (1873-4) Cagliostro in Wien (1875) Prinz Methusalem (1877) Blindekuh (1878) Das Spitzentuch der Königin (1880) Der lustige Krieg (1881) Eine Nacht in Venedig (1883) Der Zigeunerbaron (1885) Simplicuis (1887) Ritter Pazman (1892) Fürstin Ninetta (1893) Jauka (1894) Waldmeister (1895) Die Götten der Vernunft (1897).īALLET: Cinderella (1899 completed as Aschenbrödel by J. Schoenberg, were what we should now call ‘fans’ of Strauss, recognizing a supreme master of a genre who comp. Was friend and admirer of Wagner, who, like Brahms and other composers incl. is played, as are his polkas and other dances. Of his waltzes, the Blue Danube (1867), Roses from the South (1880), the great Emperor Waltz (1888), and Tales from the Vienna Woods (1868) are beloved wherever mus. Turned to stage 1871, when first of a series of successful operettas was produced at the Theater an der Wien, the most famous being Die Fledermaus (1874). nearly 400 waltzes which have come to epitomize Viennese gaiety and sentiment. In 1855 engaged to direct summer concerts in Petropaulovsky Park, St Petersburg, for 10 years. When his father died, amalgamated both orchs. of his own and his father's waltzes in rivalry to his father (they also supported opposing sides in the 1848 revolution). as career, worked as bank clerk but learned vn. Because his father did not want his sons to choose mus. Austrian composer, conductor, and violinist, eldest son of Johann Strauss, and deservedly known as ‘the Waltz King’. It is good to have some less-known pieces … All ranges of brows, high to low, should have this record by them to restore spirits when in dumps.Strauss, Johann II ( b Vienna, 1825 d Vienna, 1899). Clemens Krauss does it all to perfection. ‘For those to whom The Blue Danube means something that you hear rushed through on the pier or in a café, this playing will be a revelation of sheer delight. He had the unique lift of the waltz-rhythm at his command, and the unquestioned respect of the Vienna Philharmonic’s famously individualistic musicians, as these treasurable recordings demonstrate. Krauss himself was Austrian to the core, the son of a young Viennese court dancer and a banker well-connected at the Habsburg court. Most of the sweetest Straussian lollipops are here, such as the Blue Danube and the Radetzky March, but so too are lesser-known treasures such as Die Libelle (The Dragonfly) and the Vergnügungszug Polka: in their different ways both supreme examples of Viennese light music, and conducted by Krauss with a lightness of touch perhaps rivalled since only by Carlos Kleiber.Īs specialists in the idioms of ‘both’ Strausses – Richard and the Waltz King’s family – this pair of conductors was unique. To open the set, the overtures to Die Fledermaus and Die Zigeunerbaron make enticing tasters for Krauss’s Decca studio recordings of both operettas, also reissued by Eloquence (ELQ4827379 and ELQ4827371). A new editorial note by the opera director and critic Mike Ashman gives context to the stupendous popularity of the Strauss family’s music, both in their time and ever since, to the all-too-short career of Krauss and to the tradition of the New Year concerts in Vienna. The various ‘New Year’s Concert’ albums are now presented together in a 2CD set. For each of the previous years, Krauss and the Vienna Philharmonic had gone into the studio during the summer to set down a mix of waltzes and polkas which would, when released shortly after the concert proper, make a memento of the occasion for its increasingly worldwide audience on radio. He it was who conducted the first New Year’s Day concert in 1939, and continued to lead the occasion on each new year until his death in May 1954, but only beginning with the second half of that 1954 concert was the event recorded for commercial release. Of all the conductors who have championed the music of the Strauss family with the Vienna Philharmonic, it is Clemens Krauss who was one of the greatest pioneers. ![]() Strauss, Josef: Plappermäulchen - polka schnell, Op. Strauss, J, II: Bei uns z´Haus Waltz, Op. Strauss, Josef: Auf Ferienreisen - Polka schnell, Op. Strauss, J, II: Ballet Music from Ritter Pásmán: Csárdás Strauss, Josef: Feuerfest (Fireproof), Op. Strauss, Josef: Dorfschwalben aus Österreich - waltz, Op. Strauss, J, II: Im Krapfenwald'l, Polka française, Op. Strauss, Josef: Mein Lebenslauf ist Lieb' und Leben - waltz, Op. Strauss, Johan, II: Die Fledermaus: Overture Strauss, Johan, II | Strauss, Josef | Strauss, Johan, I ![]()
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