Johann Strauss Jr. il Pipistrello Ita

Fritz Reiner/CSO - Vienna
Vinyl Rip in 24-Bit/96-kHz | FLAC tracks | no cue | no log | Covers | FS, MU | 918 MB 3% rec
1958 | Genre: Classical | Label: RCA Living Stereo | LSC-2112 | US pressing
Listed in TAS issue# 75
Shaded dog label, 6S/7S

There is no question that the Viennese stamp of genuineness has remained indelibly in Reiner's readings of the music of Vienna. And it is no coincidence that in Chicago, where the orchestra was founded by Theodore Thomas and led for many years by the late Frederick Stock, the spirit of Vienna is perpetuated by several Viennese-trained members of the orchestra.

( Joseph Wechsberg )

This 4-CD boxed set presents historic recordings of works by Arnold Schoenberg, the founding father of 20th-century modern music, and his most prominent pupils, Alban Berg and Anton Webern.

If one disc of waltzes, marches, and polkas by the Strauss family is too little and all their waltzes, marches, and polkas are too much, this five-disc Decca set should be just enough. Featuring former concertmaster turned waltz master Willi Boskovsky on the podium and the Wiener Philharmoniker in the pit, these performances are elegantly conducted, stylishly played, and idiomatically performed. Boskovsky knows exactly how to phrase a theme, accent a rhythm, and bend a tempo to keep the music eminently danceable. The Viennese players respond to him and the music with an effortless enthusiasm and appealing affection that make their performances nearly impossible to resist.

This Sony-made 30CD classical music collection covers almost all classical music, from the early Baroque period represented by Bach to the schools of classical music by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Brahms represent romantic, national and even modern musical schools led by Schubert, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Dvorak, Tchaikovsky, Chopin, etc. representative, everything wonderful and vivid.

The Karajan Official Remastered Edition comprises 101 CDs across 13 box sets containing official remasterings of the finest recordings the Austrian conductor made for EMI between 1946 and 1984, and which are now a jewel of the Warner Classics catalogue.
For many, Herbert von Karajan (1908-1989) – hailed early in his career as ‘Das Wunder Karajan’ (The Karajan Miracle) and known in the early 1960s as ‘the music director of Europe’ – remains the ultimate embodiment of the maestro.

The Vienna Boys 'Choir specializes to a certain extent in Strauss: Strauss' music means Vienna, is the sung business card of the Waltz City. Since the 1920s, the waltzes and polkas of the Strauss family have been an integral part of the concert repertoire of the Vienna Boys' Choir. Six times they were guests at the traditional New Year's Concert of the Vienna Philharmonic. The first recording of the Donauwalzer with the Vienna Boys Choir was made in 1933. Stories from the Vienna Woods were recorded in 1937, and a whole record with Strauss appeared in the USA in 1939; the last one appeared in 1999. High time for a new edition!

Recueil de textes dans lequel le compositeur raconte ses souvenirs, de ses débuts d'apprenti à la gloire en passant par ses premiers succès. Riche en anecdotes et en traits d'esprit, il évoque Richard Wagner, Hans von Bülow ou Arnold Schönberg et plonge le lecteur dans l'Allemagne musicale du début du XXe siècle, où se croisent Cosima Wagner, Johannes Brahms et Johann Strauss. …