Johann Strauss - Waltzes and Arias
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Label: ABC Classics
Cat No: ABC4814671
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 24th March 2017
Contents
Works
GiudittaDer Zigeunerbaron (The Gypsy Baron)
Persischer Marsch (Persian March), op.289
Ritter Pasman (Knight Pasman), op.441
Unter Donner und Blitz (Thunder and Lightning) polka, op.324
Spharenklange Walzer, op.235
Leichte Kavallerie (Light Cavalry)
Artists
Lorina Gore (soprano)Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra
Conductor
Marko LetonjaWorks
GiudittaDer Zigeunerbaron (The Gypsy Baron)
Persischer Marsch (Persian March), op.289
Ritter Pasman (Knight Pasman), op.441
Unter Donner und Blitz (Thunder and Lightning) polka, op.324
Spharenklange Walzer, op.235
Leichte Kavallerie (Light Cavalry)
Artists
Lorina Gore (soprano)Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra
Conductor
Marko LetonjaAbout
Vienna in the 19th century was a city obsessed by music and dancing. By 1825, the adult population was about 200,000, and the capacity of the ballrooms about 50,000. Both Johann Strauss and his son Johann Strauss II were, in turn, known as ‘the waltz king’, and their music turned them into household names across Europe. On this album, Josef Strauss is represented by his Music of the Spheres, while the attention turns firmly to the output to his older brother, including his infamous waltz On the Beautiful Blue Danube and the Thunder and Lightning Polka.
Strauss II also took inspiration from Vienna’s obsession with foreign musical influences, and we hear strains of Turkey in the Persian March, and of gypsy music in The Gypsy Baron Overture and the Czárdás – a kind of folk dance – from the opera Ritter Pásmán. Soprano Lorina Gore joins the orchestra for the vocal waltz Frühlingsstimmen (‘Voices of Spring’), as well as arias by Strauss II (‘Adele’s Laughing Song’ from Die Fledermaus) and Lehár (‘Meine Lippen, sie küssen so heiß’ (‘My Lips Kiss So Hotly’) from Giuditta).
The album is conducted by the TSO’s Chief Conductor and Artistic Director Marko Letonja, whose experience with the Vienna Symphony, Vienna State Opera and a host of other European and international orchestras brings new depth to this much-loved music.
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