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Composer of the Week: Johann Strauss (son)

BBC Radio 3
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Chris de Souza explains how Strauss came to earn Wagner's opinion of him as "the most musical mind in Europe" but ended up writing operettas under the influence of Offenbach.
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Vienna Philharmonic, conductor Willi Boskovsky Orpheus-Quadrille
Czecho-Slovak State Philharmonic, conductor Johannes Wildner
'S Gibt Nur a Kaiserstadt, 'S Gibt Nur ein Wien Bratislava Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Alfred Eschwe
Die Fledermaus (excerpts)
Bavarian Radio Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Placido Domingo
Repeated next Tuesday 12 midnight

Contributors

Unknown:
Chris de Souza
Conductor:
Willi Boskovsky
Conductor:
Johannes Wildner
Unknown:
Gibt Nur
Conductor:
Alfred Eschwe
Rosalinda:
Lucia Popp (soprano)
Eisenstein:
Peter Seiffert (tenor)
Source: Radio Times

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