Dances of Old Vienna

Release Date: 28th Apr 2017
Catalogue No: ELQ4826152
Label: Eloquence
Length: 2 hours 32 minutes

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Mozart: Contredanse "La bataille", K535

Work length1:32

Willi Boskovsky (director)
Wiener Mozart Ensemble
Recorded: 1965-05
Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna

Mozart: Contredanses (5), K609

Work length6:14

Wiener Mozart Ensemble
Willi Boskovsky
Recorded: 1965-05
Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna

Mozart: Minuets (2), K604

Work length4:40

Wiener Mozart Ensemble
Willi Boskovsky
Recorded: 1966-04
Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna

Strauss, J, I: Jugendfeuer-Galopp, Op. 90

Work length2:53

Willi Boskovsky (violin)
Boskovsky Ensemble
Willi Boskovsky
Recorded: 1967-11-10
Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna

Strauss, J, II: Liebeslieder-Walzer, Op. 114

Work length8:10

Willi Boskovsky (violin)
Boskovsky Ensemble
Willi Boskovsky
Recorded: 1967-11-10
Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna

Schubert: 4 Waltzes & 4 Ecossaises, D. 145

Work length6:18

Willi Boskovsky (violin)
Boskovsky Ensemble
Willi Boskovsky
Recorded: 1967-11-10
Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna

Strauss, Josef: Die guten, alten Zeiten, Waltz Op. 26

Work length8:01

Willi Boskovsky (violin)
Boskovsky Ensemble
Willi Boskovsky
Recorded: 1967-11-10
Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna

Strauss, J, I: Indianer, Galopp, Op. 111

Work length2:41

Willi Boskovsky (violin)
Boskovsky Ensemble
Willi Boskovsky
Recorded: 1967-11-10
Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna

Strauss, J, I: Exeter Polka, Op. 249

Work length2:15

Willi Boskovsky (violin)
Boskovsky Ensemble
Willi Boskovsky
Recorded: 1967-11-10
Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna

Strauss, J, I: Tivoli-Rutsch, Waltz Op. 39

Work length7:31

Willi Boskovsky (violin)
Boskovsky Ensemble
Willi Boskovsky
Recorded: 1967-11-10
Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna

Lanner: Pesther-Walzer Op. 93

Work length4:16

Willi Boskovsky (violin)
Boskovsky Ensemble
Willi Boskovsky
Recorded: 1967-11-10
Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna

Schubert: 4 Waltzes & 2 Ecossaises, D. 145

Work length6:00

Boskovsky Ensemble
Willi Boskovsky
Recorded: 1967-11-10
Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna

Lanner: Jägers Lust, Galopp Op. 82

Work length2:16

Willi Boskovsky (violin)
Boskovsky Ensemble
Willi Boskovsky
Recorded: 1967-11-10
Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna

Mozart: German Dances (6), K567

Work length10:05

Wiener Mozart Ensemble
Willi Boskovsky
Recorded: 1964-04
Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna

Beethoven: Contredanses (12), WoO 14

Work length11:33

Wiener Mozart Ensemble
Willi Boskovsky
Recorded: 1969-06-13
Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna

Beethoven: Romance No.2 in F, Op.50

Work length9:30

Wiener Mozart Ensemble
Willi Boskovsky
Recorded: 1969-06-13
Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna

Beethoven: 12 German Dances, WoO 8, Nos. 2, 3 & 8

Work length4:57

Wiener Mozart Ensemble
Willi Boskovsky
Recorded: 1969-06-13
Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna

Beethoven: Romance No. 1 for Violin and Orchestra in G major, Op. 40

Work length7:12

Wiener Mozart Ensemble
Willi Boskovsky
Recorded: 1969-06-13
Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna

Excerpt, Beethoven: Mödlinger Tänze WoO 17

Work length17:17

Wiener Mozart Ensemble
Willi Boskovsky
Recorded: 1969-06-13
Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna

Schubert: Rondo for violin and strings in A major, D438

Work length14:24

Felix Ayo (violin)
I Musici
Recorded: 1961-07
Recording Venue: --, --

Adagio- Allegro giusto

Track length14:24

Schubert: 5 Minuets with 6 Trios, D89

Work length15:08

Felix Ayo (violin)
I Musici
Recorded: 1961-07
Recording Venue: --, --

No. 1 in C Minor (Arranged for String Orchestra)

Track length3:45

No. 2 in F Major (Arranged for String Orchestra)

Track length0:59

No. 3 in D Minor (Arranged for String Orchestra)

Track length5:16

No. 4 in G Major (Arranged for String Orchestra)

Track length0:56

No. 5 in C Major (Arranged for String Orchestra)

Track length4:12

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Among the final albums made by the late Nikolaus Harnoncourt was a history in sound of Viennese dance, the waltzes and polkas that made contemporary millionaires of the Strauss dynasty and have since travelled the world not least thanks to the Vienna Philharmonic’s New Year’s Day concert. The leader of those concerts for 25 years, Willi Boskovsky, had already made such a history back in 1967: ‘Dances of Old Vienna’.

The musicologist Alexander Weinmann made these arrangements for Boskovsky and his colleagues in the Vienna Philharmonic: a select band of eight musicians. Together they journey in high spirits from late Mozart through Schubert and the always under-appreciated Joseph Lanner to some little-known gems of Johann Strauss the Elder (the Exeter-Polka and Tivoli-Rutsch Walzer among them) and even a tip of the hat to his son’s Liebeslieder Walzer.

A second Decca album fills out a picture of early nineteenth-century Vienna: ‘Dances and Romances’ of Beethoven, in which Boskovsky takes the solo violin parts with his renowned ease and sweetness of tone. This generous anthology is completed by another impeccably stylish chamber ensemble LP from the 1960s, I Musici playing Schubert at his most good-natured, including the expansive Rondo D438, which was the nearest he came to writing a violin concerto.

Dances of Old Vienna

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