
What a surprise! Who knew that Viennese composer Franz von Suppé (born in Dalmatia; with family roots in Italy and Belgium; nephew of Donizetti) composed
Always full of surprises, Leonard Bernstein turns in one of the best ever recordings of Bizet’s delightful early symphony. The performance is vivacious, unaffected, graced
Conductor Albert Wolff’s photo on the cover of this first-rate, well-filled CD easily could be mistaken for that of a provincial French bank manager. Though
In his day, Willi Boskovsky, said to have the “Viennese lilt in his genes”, was considered one of the great exponents of the Viennese Waltz.
How does one put together a frothy Viennese orchestral program without drawing upon composers named Strauss? Ask John Eliot Gardiner, who gathers the likes of