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Hellmesberger: | In Confidence - Polka-mazur, Op. 15 | Lanner: | Steyrische Tänze, Op. 165 | Strauss, J, I: | Erinnerung an Ernst oder Der Carneval in Venedig, Op. 126 | Strauss, J, II: | Kuss-Walzer, Op. 400 Aus den Bergen Walzer (From the Mountains), Op. 292 Melodien-Quadrille nach Verdi, Op. 112 Wo die Zitronen blühen, Op. 364 | Strauss, Josef: | Die Souberette, Polka schnell, Op. 109 Theater Quadrille, Op. 213 Sphärenklänge, Op. 235 Die Spinnerin, Polka francaise, Op. 192 Hesperus’ Path, Waltz, Op. 279 | Suppe: | Leichte Kavallerie Overture | Verdi: | Don Carlos: Ballet Music, Act III: Prestissimo | Wagner: | Lohengrin: Prelude to Act 3 |
"This was one of the most beautiful New Year's Concerts since Karajan and Kleiber. Franz Welser-Möst knows how the music of the Strauss-dynasty, the music of Lanner and Hellmesberger has to sound" Österreich on the 2011 NY Concert Sony Classical is pleased to announce the release of the recording of one of the world’s most famous classical music events: the New Year’s Concert 2013 with the Vienna Philharmonic under the baton of celebrated conductor, Franz Welser-Möst. He returns to direct the 2013 celebrations after his acclaimed debut in 2011. Maestro Welser-Mőst is the former Music Director of the London Philharmonic Orchestra. The annual New Year's Day Concert in the stunning Vienna Musikverein has been an exalted tradition for more than seven decades and the resulting recordings with works from the Strauss dynasty and their contemporaries are among the classical market's most important releases. The concert will be broadcast on TV and radio to over 70 countries around the world with an estimate of more than 40 million viewers. The programme traditionally revolves around waltzes and polkas by the Strauss family (Johann father and son as well as Josef and Eduard Strauss) whose music has enjoyed recent chart resurgence. The proven formula blends well-known classics with premieres of works that have never been performed before at the New Year´s Concert and the result is invariably both joyful and moving. The programme will remain a closely guarded secret until a few days before the event, but it can already be revealed that in 2013 the concert will include more premieres than ever before and probably some unexpected surprises. As is tradition, the concert will include the famous waltz The Blue Danube and the Radetzky March. “Welser-Möst can cut a curiously professorial figure, but the playing he gets from the orchestra really sparkles in an offbeat programme that includes 11 New Year’s Day premieres” Sunday Times, 27th January 2013 | 
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| |  | New Year's Concert 2013
Hellmesberger: | In Confidence - Polka-mazur, Op. 15 | Lanner: | Steyrische Tänze, Op. 165 | Strauss, J, I: | Erinnerung an Ernst oder Der Carneval in Venedig, Op. 126 | Strauss, J, II: | Kuss-Walzer, Op. 400 Aus den Bergen Walzer (From the Mountains), Op. 292 Melodien-Quadrille nach Verdi, Op. 112 Wo die Zitronen blühen, Op. 364 | Strauss, Josef: | Die Souberette, Polka schnell, Op. 109 Theater Quadrille, Op. 213 Sphärenklänge, Op. 235 Die Spinnerin, Polka francaise, Op. 192 Hesperus’ Path, Waltz, Op. 279 | Suppe: | Leichte Kavallerie Overture | Verdi: | Don Carlos: Ballet Music, Act III: Prestissimo | Wagner: | Lohengrin: Prelude to Act 3 |
"This was one of the most beautiful New Year's Concerts since Karajan and Kleiber. Franz Welser-Möst knows how the music of the Strauss-dynasty, the music of Lanner and Hellmesberger has to sound" Österreich on the 2011 NY Concert Sony Classical is pleased to announce the release of the recording of one of the world’s most famous classical music events: the New Year’s Concert 2013 with the Vienna Philharmonic under the baton of celebrated conductor, Franz Welser-Möst. He returns to direct the 2013 celebrations after his acclaimed debut in 2011. Maestro Welser-Mőst is the former Music Director of the London Philharmonic Orchestra. The annual New Year's Day Concert in the stunning Vienna Musikverein has been an exalted tradition for more than seven decades and the resulting recordings with works from the Strauss dynasty and their contemporaries are among the classical market's most important releases. The concert will be broadcast on TV and radio to over 70 countries around the world with an estimate of more than 40 million viewers. The programme traditionally revolves around waltzes and polkas by the Strauss family (Johann father and son as well as Josef and Eduard Strauss) whose music has enjoyed recent chart resurgence. The proven formula blends well-known classics with premieres of works that have never been performed before at the New Year´s Concert and the result is invariably both joyful and moving. The programme will remain a closely guarded secret until a few days before the event, but it can already be revealed that in 2013 the concert will include more premieres than ever before and probably some unexpected surprises. As is tradition, the concert will include the famous waltz The Blue Danube and the Radetzky March. “This New Year's Concert adds Verdi and Wagner, in their anniversary year, to a quite unusual selection of Straussian pieces, with Welser-Möst a fine, serious conductor.” BBC Music Magazine, May 2013 ***** “Welser-Möst can cut a curiously professorial figure, but the playing he gets from the orchestra really sparkles in an offbeat programme that includes 11 New Year’s Day premieres” Sunday Times, 27th January 2013 |
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Hellmesberger: | In Confidence - Polka-mazur, Op. 15 | Lanner: | Steyrische Tänze, Op. 165 | Strauss, J, I: | Erinnerung an Ernst oder Der Carneval in Venedig, Op. 126 | Strauss, J, II: | Kuss-Walzer, Op. 400 Aus den Bergen Walzer (From the Mountains), Op. 292 Melodien-Quadrille nach Verdi, Op. 112 Wo die Zitronen blühen, Op. 364 | Strauss, Josef: | Die Souberette, Polka schnell, Op. 109 Theater Quadrille, Op. 213 Sphärenklänge, Op. 235 Hesperus’ Path, Waltz, Op. 279 Die Spinnerin, Polka francaise, Op. 192 | Suppe: | Leichte Kavallerie Overture | Verdi: | Don Carlos: Ballet Music, Act III: Prestissimo | Wagner: | Lohengrin: Prelude to Act 3 |
Sony Classical are proud to release the recording of one of the world’s most famous classical music events: the New Year’s Concert 2013 with the Vienna Philharmonic under the baton of celebrated conductor, Franz Welser-Möst. He returns to direct the 2013 celebrations after his acclaimed debut in 2011. Maestro Welser-Mőst is the former Music Director of the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Includes the famous waltz "The Blue Danube" & the "Radetzky March". Usual promo & marketing activity across specialist media. The DVD & Blu-Ray formats are released on 21st Jan. “Welser-Möst can cut a curiously professorial figure, but the playing he gets from the orchestra really sparkles in an offbeat programme that includes 11 New Year’s Day premieres” Sunday Times, 27th January 2013 |
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| |  | Suppé: Overtures & Marches
Francesco Ezechiele Ermenegildo, Cavaliere Suppé-Demelli, or as he is more commonly known today, Franz von Suppé, was born in Spalato (Split), then part of the Austrian Empire, to parents of Italian / Belgian and Austrian descent. Although discouraged from a musical career from an early age, Suppé received encouragement from a distant yet illustrious relative, the great Italian opera composer Donizetti. By the 1840s Suppé had carved for himself a successful niche as a composer for the stage, and over the four decades that followed there was rarely a year without a new stage work from him. Although the bulk of his operas and operettas have sunk into relative obscurity, his bright and colourful overtures have survived. Suppé was often referred to as ‘the Viennese Offenbach’, and in fact he was responsible for introducing many of Offenbach’s operettas to the Austrian capital. The Beautiful Galatea was among his first efforts in the style of Offenbach, Suppé here taking on the French composer’s La Belle Hélène. Also on this disc are the overtures to Poet and Peasant, perhaps Suppé’s most familiar, and Boccaccio which is widely regarded as Suppé’s finest work for the stage, based very loosely on the life of Giovanni Boccaccio (1313 – 1375), the Florentine author of the Decameron. It would seem that wars and musical comedy often go hand in hand, perhaps partly for the purpose of deflating military pomposity. Several of Suppé’s operettas are in this vein, including Light Cavalry, The Jolly Robbers, Isabella, and, a major success, Fatinitza, all of which feature military plots in some form. Last, but not least, this disc features Suppé’s overtures to A Morning, Noon, and Night in Vienna, The Queen of Spades, Donna Juanita, and The Model, several operatic marches, the concert march Up Hill and Down Dale, and the Humorous Variations on the beloved Student Song ‘Who comes from afar?’. The works are performed by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra under Neeme Järvi, who in 2012 celebrated his thirty-year recording career with Chandos Records. “What other composer created such a body of rousing, exhilarating and immensely tuneful pieces?...Järvi and his Scottish players provide more than just a touch of extra precision and zip. Järvi indeed seems born to direct this music” Gramophone Magazine, May 2013 “The performances are always alert, sharply focused and carefully balanced, with tempi well chosen. I do however sense a lack of the kind of commitment and sharpness of characterisation that is found in the best of earlier discs of this material...I would not wish to exaggerate my concerns. It is certainly a well chosen, well recorded and well annotated collection, played with enviable precision” MusicWeb International, February 2013 “These stylish, extrovert, often deeply touching set pieces — overtures, marches, a potpourri and a set of variations — come off predictably brilliantly in Jarvi’s spirited hands.” Sunday Times, 13th January 2013 |
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| |  | Viennese Night At The Proms
Lehár: | Gold und Silber Walzer, Op. 79 RPO, Walter Susskind | Strauss, J, I: | Radetsky March, Op. 228 BBCSO, Walter Susskind | Strauss, J, II: | Die Fledermaus Overture Hallé, James Loughran Unter Donner und Blitz, Op. 324 BBCSO, Walter Susskind Pizzicato Polka RPO, Walter Susskind Rosen aus dem Süden, Op. 388 Hallé, James Loughran Csárdás from the operetta Die Fledermaus Sheila Armstrong Hallé, James Loughran Leichtes Blut, polka schnell, Op. 319 Hallé, James Loughran Tritsch-Tratsch Polka, Op. 214 Hallé, James Loughran Der Zigeunerbaron Overture BBCSO, Walter Susskind Der Zigeunerbaron: Einzugsmarsch Hallé, James Loughran Vergnügungszug, Op. 281 Hallé, James Loughran Perpetuum Mobile, Op. 257 RPO, Walter Susskind An der schönen, blauen Donau, Op. 314 Hallé, James Loughran | Suppe: | Leichte Kavallerie Overture bonus BBC Northern, János Fürst |
This compilation DVD features the best performances of Viennese classics from the BBC television archive, spanning a vintage period in the history of the Viennese Night Proms concerts: 1974 – 1979. Audiences at the Viennese Nights rival the enthusiasm of Last Night Prom audiences, a tradition that has been part of the Proms concert season since 1947 and which draws concert goers from all over the world. Classics featured on this DVD include the Blue Danube Waltz, Radetsky March and the Csardas and Laughing Song from Die Fledermaus, performed by Sheila Armstrong, who made her Covent Garden debut four years prior to the performances recorded here. The characteristic Viennese waltzes, polkas and overtures are performed with exuberance, good humour and panache by these three great conductors. Both Susskind and Loughran recorded Strauss and other Viennese composers for EMI, with Loughran succeeding Sir John Barbirolli at the Hallé where Viennese Nights are still a strong tradition. These performances, released for the first time on DVD, will appeal to a wide cross section of the public with branding targeted at the large Viennese/Strauss market, currently dominated by André Rieu. 1DVD Sound format: LPCM stereo/enhanced mono Picture format: 4:3 Running time: 86’ Subtitles: n/a Menu languages: English Booklet languages: E/F/G Region code: 0 Territory Restrictions: None | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Karajan - New Years Eve Concert 1978A film by Vojtech Jasny
Recording Place & Date: Philharmonie Berlin, 31.12.1978 For the 1978 New Year's Eve concert with the Berlin Philharmonic, Karajan put together a program of exclusively popular classical works Following Verdi's Overture to "La forza del destino" are the two major works of the program, Bizet's Arlésienne Suite No. 2 and Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 The Hungarian March, or "Rákóczy March," from Berlioz's "La damnation de Faust" never fails to rouse listeners with its dazzling instrumentation. The program closes with the Intermezzo from Mascagni's "L'amico Fritz" and the ever-popular Overture to "Leichte Kavallerie" by Franz von Suppé. The present recording superbly illustrates that the orchestra was also able to "let go" and enjoy a rollicking time with Suppé or a Lisztian Hungarian Rhapsody Additional footage: 60 min. portrait “Impressions about Herbert von Karajan”, featuring Karajan the man and conductor, produced for his 70th birthday. This film by Vojtech Jasny from 1978 shows maestro Karajan not only as a conductor and artist but also as teacher, father, pilot, sailor during his holidays in St.Tropez and gives many professional insights and private impressions. In 5.1 DTS Surround Sound. Total Playing Time: 53 min. + 60 min. (Portrait) | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | The Barbirolli Viennese Album
Lehár: | Gold und Silber Walzer, Op. 79 Recorded 30-31 December 1966, Kingsway Hall, London STEREO | Schubert: | Symphony No. 9 in C major, D944 'The Great' Recorded 2-3 June 1964, Kingsway Hall, London STEREO | Strauss, J, I: | Radetsky March, Op. 228 orch: Jacob. Recorded 30-31 December 1966, Kingsway Hall, London STEREO | Strauss, J, II: | An der schönen, blauen Donau, Op. 314 Recorded 30-31 December 1966, Kingsway Hall, London STEREO Unter Donner und Blitz, Op. 324 Recorded 30-31 December 1966, Kingsway Hall, London STEREO Der Zigeunerbaron Overture Recorded 30-31 December 1966, Kingsway Hall, London STEREO Perpetuum Mobile, Op. 257 Recorded 30-31 December 1966, Kingsway Hall, London STEREO Champagner-Polka, Op. 211 Recorded 30-31 December 1966, Kingsway Hall, London STEREO | Strauss, R: | Der Rosenkavalier: Waltzes Recorded 30-31 December 1966, Kingsway Hall, London STEREO | Suppe: | Ein Morgen, ein Mittag, ein Abend in Wien Overture Recorded 28-29 June 1957, Free Trade Hall, Manchester STEREO Pique Dame Overture Recorded 28-29 June 1957, Free Trade Hall, Manchester STEREO Die Banditenstreiche Overture Recorded 28-29 June 1957, Free Trade Hall, Manchester STEREO Dichter und Bauer Overture Recorded 28-29 June 1957, Free Trade Hall, Manchester STEREO Leichte Kavallerie Overture Recorded 28-29 June 1957, Free Trade Hall, Manchester STEREO Die schöne Galathée Overture Recorded 28-29 June 1957, Free Trade Hall, Manchester STEREO |
In the Free Trade Hall, at Belle Vue and in the Royal Albert Hall the Viennese Nights were occasions which gave intense musical pleasure and also had a remarkable atmosphere of bonhomie. Sir John could relax, but he never relaxed his artistic standards and he treated the waltzes and polkas as masterpieces of their kind which demanded and deserved top rank treatment. His recording sessions on 30 and 31 December 1966 included Johann Strauss II’s Blue Danube waltz, Perpetuum mobile and Gypsy Baron overture and Johann Strauss I’s Radetzky March in Gordon Jacob’s orchestration. To these are added Strauss II’s cork-popping Champagne Polka and the Thunder and Lightning Polka. No Barbirolli Viennese evening would be complete, of course, without Lehár’s Gold and Silver waltz (1902), performed with especial sumptuousness. From the 1957 Pye sessions come six items by Franz von Suppé, the Austrian composer and conductor of Belgian descent who sealed in Vienna in 1835 where five years later he became third conductor at the Theater in der Josefstadt. In 10 years there, he wrote over twenty scores, including Morning, Noon and Night in Vienna, in which he proved himself in the line of Johann Strauss I. He moved to the Theater an der Wien in 1845 as one of its chief conductors for the next 17 years, after which he went to Kaitheater in 1862 and the Carltheater in 1865 where he remained until his retirement in 1882. His Queen of Spades overture was for a one-act comic operetta, first staged in Berlin, and The Jolly Robbers (Banditenstreiche) for yet another in 1867. Perhaps his best-known and most popular pieces are the Light Cavalry overture and the Poet and Peasant overture. Of all his stage works, only Boccaccio is seen with any regularity today, although he was regarded in his lifetime as Vienna’s answer to Offenbach. But the overtures survive and are ideal Barbirolli Viennese material. The other Strauss in this album is the German, Richard. He is represented by Barbirolli’s suite of waltzes from his most popular opera Der Rosenkavalier which Barbirolli often conducted with the Covent Garden touring company in the 1930s. Sir John never conducted this particular compilation in the concert-hall although he often conducted a suite, probably arranged by Artur Rodzinski, which includes the Presentation of the Rose and the trio in orchestral disguise and can be heard on ‘Barbirolli at the Opera’ (SJB1004). It is interesting to note that Strauss himself made only arrangements of the waltzes for concert performance. Barbirolli recorded this rarity of his own in the December 1966 sessions for Columbia Studio 2. Sir John made two recordings of Schubert’s Great C major Symphony, the first in December 1953 (Barbirolli Society SJB1020) and the second (issued here) in June 1964, also for HMV. | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
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| |  | Berliner Philharmoniker: Night of Dances & RhapsodiesLive Recording from The Waldbühne Berlin, 1994
Brahms: | Hungarian Dance No. 5 | Enescu: | Romanian Rhapsody in A major, Op. 11 No. 1 | Lincke: | Berliner Luft March | Liszt: | Hungarian Rhapsody, S244 No. 2 in C sharp minor | Schubert: | Fantasie in C major, D760 'Wanderer' arranged Liszt Mikhail Rudy (piano) | Smetana: | The Bartered Bride Overture | Strauss, J, I: | Radetsky March, Op. 228 | Strauss, J, II: | Die Fledermaus Overture Unter Donner und Blitz, Op. 324 | Strauss, R: | Der Rosenkavalier: Waltzes | Suppe: | Leichte Kavallerie Overture |
Based on the amphitheatre in the ancient Greek city of Epidaurus, and nestled in a natural valley, the Waldbühne theatre seats 22,000 in leafy comfort and remains one of Berlin‘s favourite open air concert venues, with magnificent views of the stage. World class conductors lead the Berlin Philharmonic in evening concerts of popular favourites. At the Waldbühnen concert in 1994, the Berlin Philharmonic put a programme together under the heading ‚A Night of Dances and Rhapsodies‘, which presented the works of central European composers. The dance and folk pieces of music from the 19th century, which the orchestra performed under the baton of Mariss Jansons, emphasised the different styles and trends from this musically significant era. Sound Format: PCM STEREO, DD 5.1, DTS 5.1 Picture Format: 4:3 DVD Format: DVD 9, PAL Running Time: 101 mins FSK: 0 Region Code: 0 Worldwide available excluding USA/CA, Japan | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Famous Overtures
The world famous Russian conductor and musician Rozhdestvensky conducts famous Overtures including Lalo’s The King of Ys, Massenet’s Phèdre, Hérold’s Zampa and Suppé’s Poet and Peasant and Light Cavalry. Recorded between 1962 and 1964 | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | The Best of Classics Vol.1
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