Release Date: 26 June 2011
Label: Marco Polo
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 636943533925
Genres: Classical  
Composer/Series: J.Strauss
Release Date: 26 June 2011
Label: Marco Polo
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 636943533925
Genres: Classical  
Composer/Series: J.Strauss
Description
With their melodic richness, sparkling instrumentation, originality of invention and irresistible momentum, Johann Strauss the Elder's compositions of 1845-46 are among his most memorable. His waltzes and quadrilles were heard in some of the grandest Viennese ballrooms (one with 6,000 candles) and excited admiration from dancers and critics alike. Robert Schumann said of the Concordia Dances that they werereal foot-waltzes, to which everything surges and jumps". Whether writing for benefit concerts for victims of the"Saxon Flood" - Merry Pictures of Life was received with"hurricane-like applause" - or basing his themes on Flotow's opera Alessandro Stradella, Strauss possessed such an inexhaustible and unrivalled mastery of the waltz that each new work was greeted by his adoring public as his best."
Tracklisting
Walter Hofbauer; Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice ; Marek Stilec
SLOVAK STATE PO:POLLACK
Nuremberg Phil Chor/Kvso
Danubius Quartet
Walter:Budapest Strauss Symp O
Various Artists
New Budapest Quartet:Prunyi
Duarte:Slovak Radio Symphony
J. Strauss
Slovak Sinf:Marzendorfer
Wiener Symph./Sawallisch
Moser Rivinius, Johannes Mose
J. Strauss