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Bruckner Orchester Linz - The Essence Of Viennese Music by: Bruckner Orchester Linz Opera, operetta and dance. . . Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Franz Schubert Johann Strauss Sr. Johann Strauss Jr. Franz Lehár Emmerich Kálmán Bruckner Orchestra Linz Peter Guth, conductor Edith Lienbacher, soprano Herbert Lippert, tenor The everlasting subject matters of the stage drama are, to name a few: differences of cultures, the struggle between good and evil, and of course love, jealousy and intrigue. The Viennese Operetta centers on these themes, primarily on the tension in relations between the aristocracy and commoners. Strauss playfully demonstrates this in his comedies of errors and royal festivities; Lehár on the other hand tends to stay close to the drama and tragedy between the wealthy and poor, at times even with a renunciation of love; as for Kálmán, his works are full of ebullient vitality in a delirium of oblivion, set during the time when the monarchy perished, on the threshold of a new era. - Peter Guth

TRACK LISTING 1.Unter Donner und Blitz (Polka schnell) 2.Das eine kann ich nicht verzeih'n (Wiener Blut) 3.Radetzky-Marsch 4.Sei mir gegruesst du holdes Venetia (Eine Nacht in Venedig) 5.Deh vieni non tardar (La nozze di Figaro) 6.Dies Bildnis ist bezaubernd schoen (Die Zauberfloete) 7.Vilja Lied (Die Lustige Witwe) 8.Overture (Die Fledermaus) 9.Lippen Schweigen (Die lustige Witwe) 10.Entr'acte Musik No. 2 (Rosamunde) 11.Licht senkt es sich vom Himmel (Das Dreimaederlhaus) 12.Mein Herr Marquis (Die Fledermaus) 13.Dein ist mein ganzes Herz (Das Land des Laechelns) 14.An der schoenen blauen Donau 15.Tanzen moecht' ich (Die Cardasfuerstin)