Once again a fantastic DVD from André Rieu: two-and-a-half hours of heart-warming music and fabulous photography, all recorded in Vienna, musical capital of the world. Gorgeous Viennese waltzes, songs ...
The Washington Post: In Viennese waltzes, BSO welcomes new year with promise and joy
Playing Viennese waltzes on or around New Year’s Eve is a curious custom — the music was not written with that event in mind — but has become a reliable seller that most orchestras embrace. So it was ...
Sarah is in Vienna to discover the secrets of the Viennese Waltz. Expert dance instructor Thomas Schäfer-Elmayer sweeps her off her feet and live waltzes are provided by the ensemble The Philharmonics ...
Basel Symphony Orchestra, Switzerland; Armin Jordan, conductor; recorded on April 24 & 25, 1981 in die Martinskirche in Basel, Switzerland; Viennese Waltzes and Polkas Erato MCE 71459 (cassette); STU ...
For most people, the mere mention of a Viennese operetta conjures up a waltz of post-Johann Strauss composers—Franz Lehar (The Merry Widow), Oskar Straus (The Chocolate Soldier), Emmerich Kalman ...
Why do so many young Austrians learn how to waltz and long to be debutantes at the Vienna Opera Ball? DW steps into the world of the Viennese waltz. The waltz was based on the Ländler, a folk dance ...
A Strauss waltz was often a masterpiece in miniature, and even the most dyspeptic of judges, among them English critic Henry Fothergill Chorley and German composer Johannes Brahms, were great admirers. The Viennese waltz was a distinct form from, say, the many waltzes for piano by Chopin. A slow introduction allows a gentleman to ask a lady to ...