CD, Strauss, Josef (composer)
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This felt like a New Year’s concert for those who regard January 1 as a time for regretful farewells, rather than fresh starts. But it’s part of the miracle of this music that it can bear both... — More…
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Erich Kleiber, Jean Martinon - The Decca 78s
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Erich Kleiber, Jean Martinon
Erich Kleiber delivers rhythmically compelling accounts of Mozart and Beethoven symphonies. Scrawny string sound undermines Jean Martinon’s refined accounts of Ravel and Chabrier. — More…
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Memories Of Vienna - Johann Strauss I & II
Hilde Gueden (soprano)
London Symphony Orchestra, New Symphony Orchestra, Wiener Philharmoniker, Josef Krips
Krips has the lilting rhythms of the Viennese waltz coursing through his veins in these elegant performances. Coloratura soprano Hilde Gueden’s cameo appearance is a welcome bonus. — More…
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Thielemann’s symphonic credentials pay dividends in the grander pieces, his overview lending a structural breadth to such familiar fare as The Blue Danube, which took on the trappings of a symphonic... — More…
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2 CDs
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This upbeat introduction to the new year finds the Latvian maestro in genial form, with a rip-roaring account of Johann Strauss II’s Tritsch-Tratsch-Polka as well as novelties by Carl Michael... — More…
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The RIAS Second Viennese School Project
Berlin 1949-1965
Hans-Peter Schmitz (piccolo), Werner Haupt (cello), Hans Bastiaan (violin), Walter Muller (viola), Irmen Burmester (soprano), Alfred Burkner (bass clarinet), Klaus Billing (piano), Peter Stadlen (piano), Ernst Krenek (piano), Tibor Varga (violin), Suzanne Danco (soprano), Hermann Reutter (piano),...
Hard to exaggerate the richness of these four CDs...Irmen Burmester insightfully takes the Sprechstimme in a vivid Pierrot lunaire...[Stadlen] is a commanding soloist in Schoenberg’s Piano Concerto — More…
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4 CDs
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Tresors des Concerts du Nouvel An
Music by the Strauss Family
Wiener Philharmoniker, Zubin Mehta, Lorin Maazel, Robert Stolz
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4 CDs
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