Johann Strauss Edition Vol. 23 (Christian Pollack/ Slovak Sinfonietta/ Žilina) (Marco Polo: 8.225343)
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Despite charitable funds raised by the
Fortune and Viennese Kreutzer polkas, revolutionary Habsburg insurgencies became a dangerous fact of life in the Vienna of 1848. Strauss (the Elder) demonstrated solidarity through his
Austrian National Guard March, lampooning the old order with his
March of the Legion of Students. Heard on this recording in its original, more transparent orchestration, and without the drum roll, the irrepressibly festive
Radetzky March celebrated military victory in Italy and became his most famous work. Viennese citizens filled the carnival season ballrooms, and the escapist
Stress Relievers waltzes, which conclude this recording, roused frenzied cheering.