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| Artist Focus | ...Wayne Marshall begins the programme by playing his own transcription for organ of the overture to Die Fledermaus by JOHANN STRAUSS II.... |
| Bbc Proms | ...Berlioz's swashbuckling overture raises the curtain on Saint-Saens' popular symphony, which places the newly-restored Royal Albert Hall organ in the spotlight. The second half of this Prom offers a feast of music from the worlds of Viennese waltz and operetta, including works by JOHANN STRAUSS the elder, born two hundred years ago.... |
| Dancing The Apocalypse | ...Tom Service explores the dark universe of Ravel's 12 minute masterpiece, La Valse, one the most powerful and puzzling pieces in the whole orchestral repertoire. It’s a work that is a portrait of a whole genre of music – The Waltz – its birth, life, and death. Ravel composed it in 1919 and 1920, after his devastating experiences serving in the First World War and the death of his mother, the human being he was closest to in his whole life. He initially planned the work in 1906 as a tribute to the waltzes of JOHANN STRAUSS, and the seductive, sensual structures of the dance form, a piece of music that would embody the whirling pleasure of dancers in Imperial balls in Vienna in the nineteenth century.... |
| Discovering Music | ...Charles Hazlewood is joined by his ensemble Excellent Device to explore the music of the waltz king JOHANN STRAUSS ... |
| Hear And Now | ...Charivari, an Austrian journal, is based on the JOHANN STRAUSS II polka Perpetuum Mobile, and in his trumpet concerto Aerial, Gruber demands much of the soloist (here Swedish virtuoso Håkan Hardenberger) including singing down the instrument, sliding the valves in and out, and employing a wide variety of mutes.... |
| Making Tracks Christmas Show | ...The BBC National Orchestra of Wales and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra perform excerpts from Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker and Vivaldi's Four Seasons as well as JOHANN STRAUSS II's Thunder and Lightning Polka, Rimsky-Korsakov's Dance of the Tumblers and music from Dr Who.... |
| New Years Day Concert | ...With JOHANN STRAUSS: Overture; Entrance March (Gypsy Baron); Josef Strauss: Spharenklange.... |
| Private Passions | ...A keen music lover and amateur cellist, his personal choice of music includes string quartets by Janacek and Schoenberg, a Byrd Fantasia for viol consort, a movement from Messaien's Quartet for the End of Time and Schoenberg's arrangement of JOHANN STRAUSS's waltz Roses from the South.... |
| R3 Music Feature | ...While it is presented as a charming Viennese waltz in the style of JOHANN STRAUSS, La valse begins first to dismantle the form, and then finally to take an orchestral sledgehammer to it. Ravel refused to be drawn on what prompted this violent and exhilarating work, but some have taken the view that it is a perfect picture of an out-of-control Europe heading inexorably towards the Second World War.... |
| Sara Mohr-pietsch | ...JOHANN STRAUSS II: Morning Papers Waltz... |
| Words And Music | ...Including works by Thomas Moore, Laurence Binyon, Rainer Maria Rilke, Philip Larkin, Roger Mcgough and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and music by JOHANN STRAUSS, Claude Debussy, Louis Andriessen and Benjamin Britten ... |