MACDOWELL: Piano Sonata No. 4 / 6 Poems / 12 Virtuoso Studie

STRAUSS, Josef: Edition - Vol. 9

This penultimate volume charts Strauss' life from the revolutions of 1848 to his trip to London to perform before Queen Victoria the following year.

LACHNER: Symphony No. 5, 'Passionata'

Lyapunov: 12 Etudes D'Execution Transcendante, Op. 11

KASILAG / BUENAVENTURA: Violin Concertos

STRAUSS II, J.: Edition - Vol. 43

Includes work(s) by Karel Komzak II. Ensemble: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Christian Pollack.

STRAUSS II, J.: Edition - Vol. 49

This sixteenth volume in Marco Polo' ongoing Johann Strauss I Edition includes dances that reflect topical events, obsessions and the ever ubiquitous cult of the personality.

STRAUSS, Josef: Edition - Vol. 3

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.

Despite charitable funds raised by the Fortune and Viennese Kreutzer polkas revolutionary Habsburg insurgencies became a dangerous fact of life in the Vienna of 1848. Strauss (the Elder) demonstrated solidarity through his Austrian National Guard March lampooning the old order with his March of the Legion of Students. Heard on this recording in it's original more transparent orchestration and without the drum roll the irrepressibly festive Radetzky March celebrated military victory in Italy and became his most famous work. Viennese citizens filled the carnival season ballrooms and the escapist Stress Relievers waltzes which conclude this recording roused frenzied cheering.

LACHNER: Symphony No. 8 / Ball-Suite

Libby Larsen' Rodeo Queen of Heaven takes it's inspiration from religious iconography given a contemporary twist-a painting of a Madonna with gun-in a rhythmically vivacious tableau. Peter Lieuwen presents an aural portrait of the Gulfstream.