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Most of the music which Dmitri Shostakovich used for his Ballet Suites was composed for the silent films in the early 30ies or was re-used from early opera's and ballets. The Dutch composer/arranger C...

Johann Strauss jr. composed a great amount of polka's to perform with his own orchestra that played on 'dance soirees' in Vienna. Like the famous polka Donner und Blitz, the Tick-Tack Polka opus 365 i...

Der Zigeunerbaron is Strauss's second most popular operetta after Die Fledermaus. Its 1885 premiere had political resonance; the plot popularized the Dual (Austro-Hungarian) Monarchy which was to come...

Brüderlein und Schwesterlein is the very final of the second act: at the end of Prince Orlofsky's party Dr. Falke proposes to sing a song of praise to the brotherhood of the assembled company. (2 Sopa...

Täubchen das entflattert ist is the very beginning of Die Fledermaus: At Eisenstein's house the singer Alfred, in love with Eisenstein's wife Rosalinde, is heard serenading Rosalinde. Adele, the maid,...

Scherzo d'apres une ballade de Goethe Paul Dukas completed The Sorcerer's Apprentice in the spring of 1897, and it was performed for the first time on May 18 of that year in Paris. On that occasion, t...

Johann Strauss jr. composed a great amount of polka's to perform with his own orchestra that played on 'dance soirees' in Vienna. The polka-mazurka Stadt und Land, Opus 322 is a beautiful example of S...

In Lehar's bittersweet operetta Giuditta, the beautiful heroine Giuditta abandons her husband to be with Octavio, an army captain. When he leaves her to pursue his military career, she becomes a night...

Tristsch Tratsch era una revista satírica vienesa. En 1858 publicó un perfil de Johann Strauss: se temía, decía el reportaje, que las temporadas de conciertos de Strauss en Rusia y el desarrollo de su...

Jon Lord (1941 - 2012) was an English composer, pianist, and Hammond organ player known for his pioneering work in fusing rock with classical or baroque forms, especially with "Deep Purple", as well a...

Rosen aus dem Süden (Roses from the South), is a waltz medley composed by Strauss in 1880 with its themes drawn from the operetta Das Spitzentuch der Königin inspired by a novel by Heinrich Bohrmann-R...

Soprano y conjunto de viento El compositor austriaco Carl Zeller (1842-1898) contribuyó en gran medida a la gloria de la Edad de Oro de la opereta vienesa, en la que Johann Strauss hijo, Franz von Sup...

Christmas Day - a Choral Fantasy on Old Carols fue escrita en 1910, poco después de que Gustav Holst terminara los tres grupos de "Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda" y más o menos al mismo tiempo que la...

Sleigh Ride es una composición del compositor británico Frederick Delius (1862-1934). Es una pieza típica de Delius que se ajusta al estilo de sus miniaturas (mucho) posteriores como "On hearing the f...

Les Patineurs Valse (opus 183), conocido en español como "El vals de los patinadores", fue compuesto en 1882 e inspirado por el "Cercle des Patineurs" o "Pista de patinadores" del Bois de Boulogne en...

La Gioconda es una ópera en cuatro actos de Amilcare Ponchielli con libreto de Arrigo Boito, basado en "Angelo, tyran de Padoue", una obra en prosa de Victor Hugo de 1835. Estrenada en 1876, "La Gioco...

Fantasía sobre villancicos es una obra de 1912 para barítono, coro y orquesta del compositor inglés Ralph Vaughan Williams. Se estrenó en el "Festival de los Tres Coros" de 1912 en la Catedral de Here...

Fantasía sobre villancicos es una obra de 1912 para barítono, coro y orquesta del compositor inglés Ralph Vaughan Williams. Se estrenó en el "Festival de los Tres Coros" de 1912 en la Catedral de Here...

Beside his 150 waltzes Johann Strauss composed several operettas of which Die Fledermaus his best contribution to this genre is. The terzett Nein mit solchen Advokaten is sung by Rosalinde, Blind and...

Beside his 150 waltzes Johann Strauss composed several operettas of which Die Fledermaus his best contribution to this genre is. The duet Dieser Anstand, so manierlich is sung by Rosalinde and her hus...

Nico Dostal (1895-1981) was an Austrian operetta and film music composer. He was the nephew of composer Hermann Dostal. Whilst working as a Kapellmeister and composer, Dostal wrote the music for the f...

Although Italian born Guglielmo Cottrau (1797-1847) had a political career, he preferred the arts, music, literature and journalism. Around 1825 he began his collaboration with Federico Girard to publ...

Lovely classic work of Hans Christian Lumbye (1810-1874), also known as the Strauss of the North. Let the champagne pop!

In 'Sweet Jubilations' the chorale 'In dulci jubilo' by J.S. Bach is used next to a fast dance version of the same melody. In an imaginative elaboration different versions of the melody carry us toan...