Sunday 15 July 2012 5:00 pm
Die Strauß-Dynastie
Johann Strauss I: Kettenbrücke-Walzer, op. 4
Marianka-Polka, op. 173
Johann Strauss II: Gunst-Werber, op. 4
Johann Strauss I: Das Leben, ein Tanz, op. 49
Furioso-Galopp, op. 114
Johann Strauss II: Die jungen Wiener, op. 7
Johann Strauss I: Radetzky-Marsch, op. 228 (Urfassung)
Johann Strauss II: Wiener seid froh, op. 314 (An der schönen, blauen Donau) /
Schwipslied aus “Eine Nacht in Venedig”
Wein, Weib und Gesang, op. 333 / Frühlingsstimmen, op. 410 / Jugend-Träume, op. 12
Johann II & Joseph Strauss: Pizzicato-Polka, op. 234
Texts from letters written by and addressed to Johann Strauss II
Männer des chor pro musica graz
Ensemble Prisma
Thomas Fheodoroff, violine & direction
Dominik Maringer, as Johann Strauß Sohn
Habsburgs aside, the real rulers of Vienna in the 19th century were the Strauss family. They were the descendents of Hungarian Jews who had set up a successful pub in Vienna and as such, it was not a far step for them to take to land in the world of dance music. The Strauss family gave Vienna the rhythm of Viennese blood in dance form, the waltz. Johann Strauss the Younger sang to his audience, “Wiener, seid froh” (Viennese, be happy) in an early version of what later, without choir, became the “Blue Danube”, the symbol of an entire era.
Playing historical instruments, Thomas Fheodoroff and members of Concentus Musicus form a chamber orchestra to trace the Strauss dynasty from its humble beginnings in a Viennese pub, over Johann Strauss the Elder’s “Kettenbrücke”, to the court balls in Redoutensaal.
