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STRAUSS I, J.: Edition - Vol. 23

Composer(s):Strauss I, Johann
Artist(s) Pollack, Christian, Conductor • Slovak Sinfonietta, Zilina
Period(s) Romantic
Genre Classical Music
Category Orchestral
Catalogue 8.225343
Label Marco Polo
Quality   320kbps
Album Price
 
CD
USD 9.99
 

 
MP3
USD 9.99
 

 

Despite charitable funds raised by the Fortune and Viennese Kreutzer polkas, revolutionary Habsburg insurgencies became a dangerous fact of life in the Vienna of 1848. Strauss (the Elder) demonstrated solidarity through his Austrian National Guard March, lampooning the old order with his March of the Legion of Students. Heard on this recording in its original, more transparent orchestration, and without the drumroll, the irrepressibly festive Radetzky March celebrated military victory in Italy and became his most famous work. Viennese citizens filled the carnival season ballrooms, and the escapist Stress Relievers waltzes, which conclude this recording, roused frenzied cheering.


   




Review By Infodad.com,January 2013

… the excellent Marco Polo series of the works of Johann Strauss Sr. has now reached its 23rd volume, with Christian Pollack continuing his wonderfully idiomatic conducting and the Slovak Sinfonietta Žilina still playing with all the upbeat spirit that these works demand. Like the other volumes in this ongoing series, this one shows again and again just how skilled Strauss Sr. was in the musical forms of his time… © 2013 Infodad.com Read complete review






 

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