Americans, who still hear marches from local ensembles on the occasional small-town summertime evening, tend to think of marches as quintessentially American. Europeans may be likelier to identify with their own national march traditions. Both views, though, are distorted: the march is best classified as European-American. The great American march ...
Despite its title, this disc of festive music is not especially connected to wedding celebrations and should not be mistaken as a bridal sampler. Instead, the program is a survey of nineteenth century polkas, waltzes, and marches drawn from Viennese and French operettas and the dance repertoire of salon orchestras. Buoyant pieces by members of the ...
Col Legno's Schönberg & die Schrammelbrüder, featuring Klangforum Wien and joined by singers Jenny Renate Wicke and Walter Raffeiner, is trying to be so many things. It's a very postmodern concept -- a program combining the music of Vienna atonalists Arnold Schoenberg and Friedrich Cerha with "schlagers" drawn from the repertoire of the Schrammel ...
This small-ensemble performance of Viennese waltzes -- the music is played on two violins, a viola, a cello, and a string bass -- isn't claimed to be an authentic performance; the waltz as it increasingly developed depended on complex orchestration and contrasts between solo and group. Nevertheless, as annotator Hans Winking points out, the ...
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