Viennese composer, conductor, and pianist Wilhelm Grosz was a musician of remarkable versatility and wide-ranging influences. He attracted critical praise as a composer from an early age with the technically formidable Symphonic Variations on an Original Theme, acclaimed as "a dramatic tone painting expanding to symphonic grandeur - on only one instrument." The Kleine Sonate is marked by great depth and clarity of expression, while the waltz transcriptions tapped into a craze for Johann Strauss II in 1930s London. The highly original Three Pieces was rediscovered just before this recording was made.
Grosz: Piano Music, Vol. 2
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Grand Piano
Apr 10, 2026
GP956
DIE FLEDERMAUS
DECCA
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Jan 30, 2026
One of the jewels of Decca's unrivalled opera catalog, Herbert von Karajan's classic 1960 'Die Fledermaus' returns to celebrate the bicentenary of Johann Strauss. A Viennese cast in excelsis: Hilde Gueden, Erika Koth, Walter Berry, Erich Kunz and the Wiener Philharmoniker. Presented in it's original format with the Gala Sequence of guest artists including Renata Tebaldi, Jussi Bjorling, Leontyne Price, Birgit Nilsson, Teresa Berganza, Fernando Corena, Mario del Monaco, and Joan Sutherlan. Newly remastered from the original stereo master tapes at 24 bit / 192kHz. Deluxe packaging with a facsimile of the original booklet. Hybrid SACD 2-Disc Edition: presenting 24-bit audio. Rigid slipcases with hardback coffee table book. Limited Edition.
DIE FLEDERMAUS
$113.43
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DECCA
Jan 30, 2026
DCA228537SACD
DIE FLEDERMAUS
DECCA
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$126.25
Jan 30, 2026
One of the jewels of Decca's unrivalled opera catalog, Herbert von Karajan's classic 1960 'Die Fledermaus' returns to celebrate the bicentenary of Johann Strauss. A Viennese cast in excelsis: Hilde Gueden, Erika Koth, Walter Berry, Erich Kunz and the Wiener Philharmoniker. Presented in it's original format with the Gala Sequence of guest artists including Renata Tebaldi, Jussi Bjorling, Leontyne Price, Birgit Nilsson, Teresa Berganza, Fernando Corena, Mario del Monaco, and Joan Sutherlan. Newly remastered from the original stereo master tapes at 24 bit / 192kHz. Deluxe packaging with a facsimile of the original booklet. This 3 LP set is pressed on 180g vinyl with poly-lined inner sleeves and cut at Abbey Road Studios. Packaged in rigid slipcase with hardback coffee table book. Limited Edition.
DIE FLEDERMAUS
$126.25
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DECCA
Jan 30, 2026
DCA228542.1
Johann Strauss I Edition, Vol. 17
Marco Polo
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Dec 14, 2010
This seventeenth volume in Marco Polo' popular Johann Strauss I Edition celebrates the internationally adulated Viennese composer' unflagging ability to create dance music for all occasions and to stimulate a public avid for ever-new entertainment.
Johann Strauss I Edition, Vol. 17
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Marco Polo
Dec 14, 2010
8225337
Johann Strauss I Edition Vol 4 / Märzendorfer, Et Al
Marco Polo
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$13.99
Jun 01, 2004
Includes work(s) by Johann Strauss, Sr.. Ensemble: Slovak Sinfonietta. Conductor: Ernst Märzendorfer.
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Marco Polo
Jun 01, 2004
8225254
Beethoven: Symphony No. 8 in F Major, Op. 93 & R. Strauss: E
SOMM Recordings
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Feb 20, 2026
Sir Thomas Beecham had a long association with the works of Richard Strauss, to the extent that Strauss once told him, "What you have done for my works in England cannot be sufficiently appreciated." SOMM Recordings pays tribute to this collaboration between two musical giants of the early twentieth century-and throws in an early nineteenth-century powerhouse for good measure-with the release of Beecham Conducts R. Strauss and Beethoven. This is the 33rd edition of SOMM's long-running and acclaimed series The Beecham Collection, and it marks the 70th anniversary of two remarkable recordings from 1956. Once again, audio engineer Lani Spahr brings his depth of musicality and technical expertise to these newly restored masterworks. In addition to his determined efforts to put Strauss's operas on the London stage-beginning with conducting the British premiere of Strauss's opera Elektra in 1910-Beecham was enthusiastic about Strauss's tone poems. Ein Heldenleben, in particular, became something of a calling card for him. In 1947, he made a studio recording of the tone poem with the recently established Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. A few weeks after his death in 1961, his 1958 stereo recording of Ein Heldenleben was released. The present live recording comes from an all-Strauss concert given at the Royal Festival Hall on 17 October 1956. The first half of the programme included MacBeth, Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, and the Dance of the Seven Veils, which SOMM released in 2023 (ARIADNE 5021). The second half, heard here, was devoted to Ein Heldenleben. Strauss's eighth tone poem is considered somewhat autobiographical despite his insistence that the hero was "not a single poetical or historical figure, but rather a more general and free ideal of great and manly heroism." It traces the dramatic arc of the hero's life through his adversaries and his companion; at battle and in peace; and it closes with his retirement from this world. Contemporary critics of Beecham's rapturously received 1956 performance were fulsome in their praise, one noting that "the epilogue was played with such tenderness as to bring tears to the eyes," and another that "this is how Strauss can sound when conducted with musical sensibility deepened by experience." Beecham's relationship with Ludwig van Beethoven was rather more ambivalent. Although he performed several of Beethoven's symphonies regularly, his recordings were more sporadic and he never completed a full cycle. SOMM is fortunate and proud to present here Beecham's exciting, fleet-footed interpretation of the Eighth Symphony, recorded at the Festival Hall on 12 December 1956. His performance brings energy and a sense of fun to the work, which musicologist Nigel Simeone describes as the "wittiest of the Beethoven symphonies."
Beethoven: Symphony No. 8 in F Major, Op. 93 & R. Strauss: E
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SOMM Recordings
Feb 20, 2026
SOMM-BEECHAM 33
Yuletide Treats
Linn Records
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Oct 18, 2024
Yuletide is the mid-winter period from Hannuka, through Christmas, to the celebration of Twelfth Night. From the late 1950s through the 1970s it was seemingly obligatory for all artists from Jazz to Punk to make a Christmas album. With Yuletide Treats, Duo Pleyel joins that spirit and tradition, with some of the greatest classical hits for your festive delight. Comprising keyboardists Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya and Richard Egarr, Duo Pleyel begins with three beautiful, transcendental and intimate movements from Franz Liszt's 'Christmas Tree Suite'. Then follows 'For unto us a child is born' and 'Hallelujah' from Handel's Messiah. No New Year's celebration is complete without the Strauss family's 'Blue Danube' and 'Radetzky March'. Finally, they present Tchaikovsky's 'Nutcracker Suite'. All performed on a Chris Maene Straight Strung Concert Grand, this album is to be listened to at high volume with a large glass of something delicious.
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Linn Records
Oct 18, 2024
CKD757
Strauss Family Rarities
BIS
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Dec 01, 1993
Classical Music
Strauss Family Rarities
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BIS
Dec 01, 1993
BIS-CD-645
J. Strauss I Edition Vol 8 / Pollack, Slovak Sinfonietta
Marco Polo
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Mar 21, 2006
Includes waltz(es) by Johann Strauss Sr.. Ensemble: Slovak Sinfonietta. Conductor: Christian Pollack.
J. Strauss I Edition Vol 8 / Pollack, Slovak Sinfonietta
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Marco Polo
Mar 21, 2006
8225284
J. Strauss I Edition Vol 10 / Märzendorfer, Et Al
Marco Polo
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Dec 12, 2006
Includes work(s) by Johann Strauss Sr.. Ensemble: Slovak Sinfonietta. Conductor: Ernst Märzendorfer.
J. Strauss I Edition Vol 10 / Märzendorfer, Et Al
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Marco Polo
Dec 12, 2006
8225286
Johann Strauss Sr. Edition Vol 12 / Ernst Märzendorfer, Zilina Slovak Sinfonietta
Marco Polo
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Sep 30, 2008
In a career that spanned a period from the 1820s until his death in 1849, the older Johann Strauss established an unrivalled position for himself among composers and performers of dance music in Vienna.
Johann Strauss Sr. Edition Vol 12 / Ernst Märzendorfer, Zilina Slovak Sinfonietta
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Marco Polo
Sep 30, 2008
8225288
Viennese Night at the Proms
ICA Classics
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Jun 28, 2011
Characteristic Viennese waltzes, polkas, and overtures represent some of the best moments from Viennese Night Prom concerts spanning a vintage period in their history. Included are works by Johann Strauss I & II, Franz Lehar, and Franz von Suppe.
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Viennese Night at the Proms
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ICA Classics
Jun 28, 2011
ICAD 5026
Johan Strauss Sr. Edition Vol 11 / Pollack, Et Al
Marco Polo
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Feb 26, 2008
Includes work(s) by Johann Strauss Sr.. Ensemble: Slovak Sinfonietta Zilina. Conductor: Christian Pollack.
Johan Strauss Sr. Edition Vol 11 / Pollack, Et Al
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Marco Polo
Feb 26, 2008
8225287
Johann Strauss Festkonzert
Orfeo
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Sep 27, 1990
Classical Music
Johann Strauss Festkonzert
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Orfeo
Sep 27, 1990
ORF-C236901
Johann Strauss II: Piano Transcriptions
Centaur Records
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$18.99
Jan 01, 1992
Johann Strauss II: Piano Transcriptions
Johann Strauss II: Piano Transcriptions
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Centaur Records
Jan 01, 1992
CRC 2127
Viennese Waltz Export
Gramola Records
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Feb 10, 2015
The second release by the four-hand piano duo Viennese Waltz Export (Marialena Fernandes and Ranko Markovic) sheds light on the development of the waltz over the years and national borders. Commencing with classical Viennese Waltzes by Johann Strauss I, the duo move on to Russia with a Rachmaninoff waltz as well as his arrangement of Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty for four-hands. Waltzes by Johannes Brahms and Wolfgang Rihm lead to the concluding Valse du mystérieux baiser dans l’oeil by Erik Satie, allowing a certain glimpse of emerging musical Dadaism.
Viennese Waltz Export
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Gramola Records
Feb 10, 2015
GRAM99046
Johann Strauss II: Blindekuh
Naxos
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Mar 27, 2020
Blindekuh ('Blind Man's Buff') was Johann Strauss II's sixth operetta and his least known. Neglected for well over a century, it was revived by Dario Salvi and the forces on this album in January 2019. The work's initial lack of success is hard to explain but it may have been caused by a confusing libretto - the music itself is vibrant and captivating with waltzes, polkas, mazurkas, marches and bel canto arias. Performed in a concert version without dialogue, and in accordance with performing traditions, this production restores the work to the status of one of Strauss' most melodically seductive works. Dario Salvi is a Scottish-Italian conductor, musicologist and researcher who specializes in the restoration and performance of rare works. Salvi has conducted symphonic works, opera and operettas across Europe, the Middle East and the US. His passion is the rediscovery and performance of long-forgotten masterpieces by the likes of Supp�, Meyerbeer, Rumshinsky, Gen�e, Auber, and many others. He is collaborating with Naxos on recording a series on Romantic ballets, including works by Minkus, Pugni, Adam and others, and a series on Auber's overtures and orchestral music. Two other important projects include recording the last three missing operas by Johann Strauss II and three never before recorded operatic works by Giacomo Meyerbeer.
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Naxos
Mar 27, 2020
8660434-35
Best of Johann Strauss
Supraphon
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Jun 26, 2009
Classical Music
Best of Johann Strauss
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Supraphon
Jun 26, 2009
SU3996-2
Johann Strauss II at the Opera
Naxos
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Sep 09, 2014
Johann Strauss II the ‘Waltz King’ was the most famous and enduringly successful of 19th c. light music composers, captivating not only Vienna but the whole of Europe and America with his tuneful dances and marches. Of these dances none was more of a ‘snapshot’ of contemporary musical life than the quadrille. Its six distinct sections invited the use of musical highlights from the latest theatre hits, and Strauss the Younger was at the forefront of those writing quadrilles using the themes of others, from Balfe’s The Bohemian Girl to Offenbach’s Orpheus, and his own operetta masterpiece Die Fledermaus.
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Naxos
Sep 09, 2014
8578287
Hommage
SUPREME CLASSICS
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Jan 23, 2026
In February 2001, Franz Bartolomey, principal cellist of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, recorded Johannes Brahms' famous First Sonata for Cello and Piano, Op. 38 in E minor, and an early work, Richard Strauss' Sonata in F major, in the Grand Broadcasting Hall of the RadioKulturhaus. Twenty-five years later, two years after his father's death, his son, cellist Matthias Bartolomey, together with pianist Ariane Haering, now presents the album 'HOMMAGE' with the same programme, supplemented by an arrangement of Schubert's Moment Musical, Op. 3. For Matthias Bartolomey, his father's recording, and in particular his interpretation, marks an extremely formative period in his musical career. The sonatas by Brahms and Strauss were part of the soundscape of Matthias's childhood home from his earliest youth. Similar to Richard Strauss's 'Don Quixote', he knew every note, every phrasing, and every portamento of his father's playing by heart.