Ernst Rom

Johann Strauss Junior’s second operetta, Der Carneval in Rom, premiered in 1873 only one year before Die Fledermaus, and while the music is enjoyable enough, with several nice tunes, there is little in the score to presage the gorilla blockbuster soon to come. For one thing, Strauss wrote the music in the more romantic style of light opera because the work was originally scheduled to be mounted at the Vienna court opera, a place of more serious mien than the Theater an der Wien, then the home of the comic-oriented Viennese operetta.

Das Werk Ernst Cassirers gilt als eine der größten philosophischen Leistungen des 20. Jahrhunderts. Die im Fokus seines Lebenswerks stehende Philosophie der symbolischen Formen sowie die interdisziplinär betriebenen Forschungen zur Geschichte der Philosophie und zur Geistesgeschichte sind grundlegend sowohl für die Kulturphilosophie als auch für die Kulturwissenschaften.

A luxurious and authoritative 64CD orchestral and concerto set, celebrating one of the world’s great orchestras and their 64-year relationship with Decca Classics.
Few labels can claim to be so associated with a city as inextricably as Decca is with Vienna. No history of classical recordings would be complete without a chapter documenting how both Decca and the WP worked to perfect the art of recording in the city’s great concert halls, most notably in the famous Sofiensaal.