Browse: CD, Strauss, Josef (composer)

This is a concert that grows to greatness…Never has a programme built to its own private apotheosis as surely as this, with lofty yet almost unbearably moving accounts of the Emperor Waltz and... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2021 More…

This upbeat introduction to the new year finds the Latvian maestro in genial form, with a rip-roaring account of Johann Strauss II’s Tritsch-Tratsch-Polka as well as novelties by Carl Michael... — Sunday Times, 26th January 2020 More…

Krauss was a master of waltz uplift and polka character, with Josef Strauss supreme here. Only Carlos Kleiber’s New Year’s Day programmes have shone as bright. — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas Issue 2018, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Muti’s conducting of the old favourites, Strauss Jr’s Blue Danube and Sr’s Radetzky March, bristles with Italianate swagger and brio. — Sunday Times, 28th January 2018 More…

This charming disc is less a potpourri of Viennese bonbons, more an act of devotion...Rubato, lilt and elegance reign supreme, and you’ll find yourself partying to the sound of imperial Vienna. — Financial Times, 9th August 2014, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Enthusiasts of Thielemann’s work will be impressed by the result – though there’s plenty here to please anyone who loves this music…the Ritter Pásmán csárdás has the verve and headlong momentum... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2019 More…