Josef Strauss Meets Offenbach
) | Label: NAXOS Catalog: 8578288 Format: CD Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra; Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra; Razumovsky Symphony Orchestra; Dittrich; Pollack; Eschwe; MuessauerComposed by: Strauss, Josef Intended for the army by his father, Johann – the founder of the waltz dynasty – Josef Strauss instead turned first to engineering and then, in a glittering career from 1856 until his premature death in 1870, to full-time composition and conducting. + Josef was especially enamored of the music of Offenbach whose operettas and operas traveled successfully from the Parisian stage to Vienna. + It was Josef’s custom to take the most attractive and suitable motifs from Offenbach’s stage works and fashion them into quadrilles, works performed to huge acclaim by his virtuoso orchestra.  Price: $19.98 |