The Philharmonics

A Tribute to Vienna

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Artist: The Philharmonics - Producer: Accentus Music - Arranger: Alban Berg, Anton Webern & Arnold Schönberg - Composer: Tibor Kováč, Leopold Godowsky, Fritz Kreisler & Johann Strauss II - Orchestra: The Philharmonics
Café Sperl, Vienna | 64 min | 2011 | TV-G

A Tribute to Vienna

Chamber music ensemble The Philharmonics pays tribute to the music of Vienna in this March 9, 2011 concert from Vienna's Café Sperl. The ensemble, which consists of musicians from the Vienna Philharmonic and the Berlin Philharmonic, performs arrangements of five popular waltzes by Johann Straus II. Among them are Kaiser-Walzer, Op. 437, and Schatz-Walzer, Op. 418, from the operetta The Gypsy Baron. In May 1921, the likes of Arnold Schönberg, Alban Berg, and Anton Webern wrote these chamber music arrangements to raise funds for their Society for Private Musical Performances. Although both the concert and the auction of the scores were very successful, the Society eventually went under. In addition to these pieces by Strauss, The Philharmonics perform works by Fritz Kreisler, Leopold Godowsky, as well as The Philharmonics's first violinist, Tibor Kováč. The program comes to an end with Godowsky’s tribute to the city: Alt Wien.

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