Composer: Oscar Straus
Performer: Oliver Triendl
Orchestra: Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken und Kaiserslautern
Conductor: Ernst Theis
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: CPO
Catalogue: 555280-2
Release: 2020
Size: 280 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Piano Concerto in B minor
01. I. Moderato, ma non troppo lento – Allegro con brio
02. II. Lento assai
03. III. A tempo giusto
04. Reigen-Walzer (Arr. Franz Marszalek)
Serenade for String Orchestra in G Minor, Op. 35
05. I. Allegro commodo
06. II. Scherzino
07. III. Andantino
08. IV. Walzer
09. V. Alla marcia. Finale
Tragant-Walzer nach Motiven des Tanzspiels “Die Prinzessin von Tragant”
10. I. Einleitung. Andante
11. II. Walzer Nr. 1
12. III. Walzer Nr. 2
13. IV. Walzer Nr. 3. Coda
Since Oscar Straus began his career in the cabaret, it was only natural for him to bet on comedy in his first operetta, Die lustigen Nibelungen (1904), a parody of the Nibelungenlied, Wagner, and Wilhelminism. In this way, Straus, more than any of his Viennese contemporaries, became the heir to Jacques Offenbach, the founder of the genre, whose last period of flourishing influenced Straus (who was born in 1870) as well as Franz Lehár, Leo Fall, and Emmerich Kálmán. Straus’s Serenade for String Orchestra is written in an always-radiant classical style. Especially the last two movements, »Walzer« and »Alla marcia,« have an elegant structure already anticipating the later operettas.