Clemens Krauss: The New Year Concerts 1951-54
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Label: Australian Eloquence
Cat No: ELQ4827363
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Genre: Orchestral
Release Date: 3rd November 2017
Contents
Works
Agyptischer Marsch (Egyptian March), op.335An der schonen blauen Donau (On the beautiful blue Danube), op.314
Annen-Polka, op.117
Auf der Jagd (At the Hunt), op.373
Bei uns z'Haus (At Home), op.361
Der Zigeunerbaron (The Gypsy Baron)
Fruhlingsstimmen (Voices of Spring), op.410
Geschichten aus dem Wienerwald (Tales from the Vienna Woods), op.325
Im Krapfenwald'l (Cuckoo Polka), op.336
Kunstlerleben (Artists' Life), op.316
Morgenblatter Waltz, op.279
Perpetuum mobile, op.257
Ritter Pasman (Knight Pasman), op.441
Stadt und Land, op.322
Vergnugungszug, op.281
Strauss II, Johann (with Josef Strauss)
Pizzicato Polka, op.234Radetzky March, op.228
Auf Ferienreisen, op.133
Die Libelle: Polka mazur, op.204
Dorfschwalben aus Osterreich, op.164
Feuerfest!, op.269
Jokey Polka, op.278
Mein Lebenslauf ist Lieb' und Lust, op.263
Moulinet, op.57
Ohne Sorgen, op.271
Plappermaulchen, op.245
Spharenklange Walzer, op.235
Artists
Wiener PhilharmonikerConductor
Clemens KraussWorks
Agyptischer Marsch (Egyptian March), op.335An der schonen blauen Donau (On the beautiful blue Danube), op.314
Annen-Polka, op.117
Auf der Jagd (At the Hunt), op.373
Bei uns z'Haus (At Home), op.361
Der Zigeunerbaron (The Gypsy Baron)
Fruhlingsstimmen (Voices of Spring), op.410
Geschichten aus dem Wienerwald (Tales from the Vienna Woods), op.325
Im Krapfenwald'l (Cuckoo Polka), op.336
Kunstlerleben (Artists' Life), op.316
Morgenblatter Waltz, op.279
Perpetuum mobile, op.257
Ritter Pasman (Knight Pasman), op.441
Stadt und Land, op.322
Vergnugungszug, op.281
Strauss II, Johann (with Josef Strauss)
Pizzicato Polka, op.234Radetzky March, op.228
Auf Ferienreisen, op.133
Die Libelle: Polka mazur, op.204
Dorfschwalben aus Osterreich, op.164
Feuerfest!, op.269
Jokey Polka, op.278
Mein Lebenslauf ist Lieb' und Lust, op.263
Moulinet, op.57
Ohne Sorgen, op.271
Plappermaulchen, op.245
Spharenklange Walzer, op.235
Artists
Wiener PhilharmonikerConductor
Clemens KraussAbout
He it was who conducted the first New Year’s Day concert in 1939, and continued to lead the occasion on each New Year until his death in May 1954, but only beginning with the second half of that 1954 concert was the event recorded for commercial release. For each of the previous years, Krauss and the Vienna Philharmonic had gone into the studio during the summer to set down a mix of waltzes and polkas which would, when released shortly after the concert proper, make a memento of the occasion for its increasingly worldwide audience on radio. The various ‘New Year’s Concert’ albums are now presented together in a 2-CD set.
A new editorial note by the opera director and critic Mike Ashman gives context to the stupendous popularity of the Strauss family’s music, both in their time and ever since, to the all-too-short career of Krauss and to the tradition of the New Year concerts in Vienna.
Krauss himself was Austrian to the core, the son of a young Viennese court dancer and a banker well-connected at the Habsburg court. He had the unique lift of the waltz-rhythm at his command, and the unquestioned respect of the Vienna Philharmonic’s famously individualistic musicians, as these treasurable recordings demonstrate.
‘For those to whom The Blue Danube means something that you hear rushed through on the pier or in a café, this playing will be a revelation of sheer delight. Clemens Krauss does it all to perfection. It is good to have some less-known pieces ... All ranges of brows, high to low, should have this record by them to restore spirits when in dumps.’ - Gramophone, May 1954 (Third New Year’s Concert)
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