Compact Disc - The Magic of Music

Zauber der Musik
The Magic of Music

Johann Strauss Orchestra Frankfurt
Günther Gräf conducting

Deborah Lynn Cole (soprano)

Compact Disc - Total time: 71:52 min.

Go on a musical journey to the past together with the Johann Strauss Orchestra Frankfurt and the soprano Deborah Lynn Cole. Come with us to the former Austro-Hungarian monarchy and its political and cultural centre Vienna. Let us enchant you with waltzes, polkas and songs from operettas by Franz von Suppé and Johann Strauss Jr, composers of the so-called golden era of the operetta (end of the 19th century), and by Franz Lehár and Emmerich Kálmán, classified as belonging to the silver era of the operetta (beginning of the 20th century). We have also included musical gems by Johann Strauss Sr, Carl Michael Ziehrer and Johann Schrammel, all having worked in Vienna. Luigi Arditi and Franz Grothe bring up the rear. Although he has no Viennese blood Franz Grothe's music for the UFA film Tanz mit dem Kaiser with the Austrian Emperor Joseph II as central figure absolutely hits the perfect Viennese note. Finally Luigi Arditi's waltz Il bacio is so typically stylistic of a Vienna waltz that it is immediately connected to Vienna. This virtuosic vocal waltz gives Deborah Lynn Cole the opportunity to pull out all the stops and send you in the magical world of music.

No.	Composer	Title


01	Franz von Suppé (1819-1895)	The Beautiful Galathea Overture

02	Johann Strauss Jr (1825-1899)	Emperor Waltz (Kaiser-Walzer), op. 437

03	Johann Strauss Jr (1825-1899)	Mein Herr Marquis Song from the operetta The Bat

04	Johann Strauss Jr (1825-1899)	Light as a Feather (Leichtes Blut) Polka schnell, op. 319

05	Johann Strauss Jr (1825-1899)	Wine, Women and Song (Wein, Weib und Gesang) Waltz, op. 333

06	Franz Lehár (1870-1948)	Meine Lippen, sie küssen so heiß Song from the musical comedy Giuditta

07	Emmerich Kálmán (1882-1953)	Dorfkinder Waltz (Village Children Waltz) on motives of the operetta Der Zigeunerprimas

08	Franz Lehár (1870-1948)	Liebe, du Himmel auf Erden Song from the operetta Paganini

09	Franz Lehár (1870-1948)	Gold and Silver Waltz, op. 79

10	Franz Grothe (1908-1982)	Frühling in Wien Song from the UFA film Tanz mit dem Kaiser

11	Johann Schrammel (1850-1893)	Wien bleibt Wien March

12	Carl Michael Ziehrer (1843-1922)	Hereinspaziert Waltz, op. 518, from the operetta Der Schaetzmeister

13	Luigi Arditi (1822-1903)	Il bacio (Kiss Waltz) Vocal Waltz

14	Johann Strauss Jr (1825-1899)	Thunder and Lightning (Unter Donner und Blitz) Polka schnell, op. 324

15	Johann Strauss Sr (1804-1849)	Radetzky March, op. 228