J Strauss II - Wine, Women & Song (waltz arrangements)
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Label: MDG (Dabringhaus und Grimm)
Cat No: MDG6031590
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 7th December 2009
Contents
Works
Geschichten aus dem Wienerwald (Tales from the Vienna Woods), op.325Kaiserwalzer, op.437
Lagunenwalzer, op.411
Rosen aus dem Suden, op.388
Schatzwalzer (Treasure waltz), op.418
Tritsch-Tratsch Polka, op.214
Vergnugungszug, op.281
Wein, Weib und Gesang!, op.333
Artists
Thomas Christian EnsembleWorks
Geschichten aus dem Wienerwald (Tales from the Vienna Woods), op.325Kaiserwalzer, op.437
Lagunenwalzer, op.411
Rosen aus dem Suden, op.388
Schatzwalzer (Treasure waltz), op.418
Tritsch-Tratsch Polka, op.214
Vergnugungszug, op.281
Wein, Weib und Gesang!, op.333
Artists
Thomas Christian EnsembleAbout
In 1921, to rescue their Society for Musical Private Performances from insolvency, Alban Berg, Anton Webern and Arnold Schönberg penned adaptations of Johann Strauss’s most popular waltzes. The benefit concert and the following auction of their scores were very successful, and while the society in the end could not be the saved, the four waltz scores have survived. The Thomas Christian Ensemble of Vienna has now brought together these unusual arrangements for the first time on CD.
The three composers had founded the society as an alternative model to the established official music scene. They wanted to organise “exemplary performances” - elsewhere not so carefully rehearsed because of the “constraints of the musical everyday” - exclusively for their members, but they did not succeed in enrolling enough paying members to cover the costs. For this reason, concerts designed to fill their coffers were repeatedly held – as on 27 May 1921, when the four Viennese waltzes were premiered.
It is a little-known fact that Schönberg had a fine sense of humor. During a tour of his “Pierrot lunaire” ensemble, the master created as a contrast a new version of the “Emperor’s Waltz“ that has been a popular encore piece ever since then. While Strauss had composed the piece for the Prussian Emperor William II, Schönberg turned it into a waltz for Austria’s Emperor Franz Joseph II by letting Haydn’s “Emperor’s Hymn“ infiltrate the whole – and what fun that was and is!
The Berg arrangement of “Wine, Women and Song” is a rare piece. This collection brings together many contemporary arrangements of Strauss’ works and the one by Dott was done especially for this ensemble.
Includes:
- Rosen aus dem Suden
- Schatzwalzer
- Wein, Weib und Gesang
- Lagunen-Walzer
- Kaiserwalzer
- Vergnugungszug
- G'schichten aus dem Wienerwald
- Tritsch-Tratsch-Polka
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