Aug 2, 2025 | BBC Proms 2025, Concert Soundbites, Johann Strauss II 200 (born October 25, 1825)
Photo, Chris Christodoulou Enjoyable, but an occasional lack of innate dancing rhythms, and artless rubato, reminded that the otherwise-admirable BBCCO isn’t the Vienna Philharmonic. Yet, such as Reiner and Szell, with their respective American orchestras, had...
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Mar 30, 2025 | Concert Reviews, Johann Strauss II 200 (born October 25, 1825), Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021]
Sunday, March 30, 2025 Golden Hall, Musikverein, Vienna A Sunday-morning treat, a contrasted sequence of Johann Strauss II overtures, entr’actes and arias from his various operettas played in the manner born (of course), conducted with affection and...
Jan 1, 2025 | Johann Strauss II 200 (born October 25, 1825), Ramblings, Videos
Golden Hall, Musikverein – A lively march to start with as Riccardo Muti opened his seventh NYD concert (a tally nevertheless behind Clemens Krauss and Willi Boskovsky), then a Waltz with birdsong, and so on, Polkas, an Overture (to The Gypsy Baron on this...
