從莫札特到約翰史特勞斯 / 維也納傳統舞曲集 (世界首度CD發行)

這張專輯以2CD收錄由圓舞曲指揮大師Willi Boskovsky所錄製的維也納舞曲錄音集.收錄了非常精彩且具代表性的重要作品.除了約翰史特勞斯圓舞曲以外,多首維也納所流行過的舞曲集更值得一聽!世界首度CD發行的珍貴寶藏!
 
Among the final albums made by the late Nikolaus Harnoncourt was a history in sound of Viennese dance, the waltzes and polkas that made contemporary millionaires of the Strauss dynasty and have since travelled the world not least thanks to the Vienna Philharmonic’s New Year’s Day concert. The leader of those concerts for 25 years, Willi Boskovsky, had already made such a history back in 1967: ‘Dances of Old Vienna’.
 
The musicologist, Alexander Weinmann, made these arrangements for Boskovsky and his colleagues in the Vienna Philharmonic: a select band of eight musicians. Together they journey in high spirits from late Mozart through Schubert and the always under-appreciated Joseph Lanner to some little-known gems of Johann Strauss the Elder (the ‘Exeter-Polka’ and ‘Tivoli-Rutsch Walzer’ among them) and even a tip of the hat to his son’s ‘Liebeslieder Walzer’.
 
A second Decca album fills out a picture of early nineteenth-century Vienna: ‘Dances and Romances’ of Beethoven, in which Boskovsky takes the solo violin parts with his renowned ease and sweetness of tone. This generous anthology is completed by another impeccably stylish chamber ensemble LP from the 1960s, I Musici playing Schubert at his most good-natured, including the expansive Rondo D438 which was the nearest he came to writing a violin concerto.
 
曲目:
CD 1
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
Kontretanz in C major, ‘La Bataille’, KV 535
2 Menuette, KV 604
5 Kontretänze ‘Non piu andrai’, KV 609
 
JOHANN STRAUSS I
Jugendfeuer-Galopp, Op. 9
 
JOHANN STRAUSS II
Liebeslieder-Walzer, Op. 114
 
FRANZ SCHUBERT
4 Walzer
4 Ecossaisen
 
JOSEF STRAUSS
Die guten alten Zeiten – Walzer, Op. 26
 
JOHANN STRAUSS I
Indianer-Galopp, Op. 111
Tivoli-Rutsch-Walzer, Op. 39
Exeter-Polka, Op. 249
 
JOSEF LANNER
Pesther-Walzer, Op. 93
 
FRANZ SCHUBERT
4 Walzer & 2 Ecossaisen
 
JOSEF LANNER
Jägers Lust – Galopp, Op. 82
 
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
6 Deutsche Tänze, KV 567
 
CD 2
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
12 Kontretänze, WoO 14
Deutsche Tänze, WoO 8 (Nos. 2, 3 & 8)
Mödlinger Tänze, WoO 17
Violin Romance No. 1
Violin Romance No. 2
 
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Rondo for Violin and Orchestra in A major, D.438*
Five Minuets and Six Trios, D.89*
 
Wiener Mozart Ensemble (CD1: 1–3, 14)
Boskovsky Ensemble (CD1: 4–13)
Willi Boskovsky, violin/conductor
Felix Ayo, violin
I Musici (CD2: 6–11)
 
*FIRST RELEASE ON CD