Radio: Habsburg Sock Hop returns

To usher out 2016, the third annual Habsburg Sock Hop – our more expansive take on the traditional Viennese New Year’s program of Strauss waltzes. We’ll feature several Strauss favorites, and contrast them with the waltz’s hill-country folk ancestor, the Ländler,
as it was employed by composers over three generations. And we’ll
sample folk dances from
other lands in the sprawling, multi-ethnic empire the Habsburg dynasty once ruled in Central Europe and the Balkans – Hungarian, Czech, Polish, Romanian, Jewish, Roma – alongside works, from the baroque to the modern, in which composers adapted those dances.

Dec. 31
1-5 p.m.
1800-2200 GMT/UTC
WDCE, University of Richmond
90.1 FM
http://www.wdce.org

Johann Strauss II: “Kaiser-Walzer”
London Symphony Orchestra/
John Georgiadis
(LSO Live)

Josef Lanner:
“Dornbacher Ländler”
Die Eipeldauer
(Preiser)

Haydn: Symphony No. 88
in G major – III: Menuetto
Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra/
Ivor Bolton
(Oehms Classics)

Mahler: Symphony No. 1 –
II: Kräftig bewegt, doch nicht zu schnell
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra/
Michael Tilson Thomas
(SFS Media)

Johann Strauss I:
“Alte und neue Tempête”
Camerata Cassovia
(Naxos)

Rossini: “William Tell” –
Final du Divertissement
Giuseppe Verdi Symphony
Orchestra, Milan/
Riccardo Chailly
(Decca)

Johann Strauss II: “Künstler-Quadrille”
Slovak State Philharmonic, Košice/
Johannes Wildner
(Naxos)

Past Masters:
Brahms: waltzes, Op. 39, Nos. 1, 2, 5, 6, 10, 15
Dinu Lipatti &
Nadia Boulanger,
piano four-hands
(recorded 1937)
(EMI Classics)

Johann Strauss II: “Seid umschlungen Millionen”
Vienna Philharmonic/Willi Boskovsky
(Decca)

Past Masters:
Kodály: “Dances of Galanta”
London Symphony Orchestra/
István Kertész
(recorded 1964)
(Decca Eloquence)

traditional
(Collection Uhrovska):
“Visel som”
“Acha ma myla”
C 298
“Ksobassu Nota”
(arrangements by
Matthias Maute)
David Greenberg, violin
Carmen Genest, voice
Ensemble Caprice/Matthias Maute
(Analekta)

traditional
(Anna Keczer Szirmay Collection):
Hungarian baroque dances
Collegium Musicum Budapest
(Hungaroton)

Haydn: Quartet in D major, Op. 20, No. 4 –
III: Menuet alla Zingarese
Daedalus Quartet
(Bridge)

Liszt:
“Hungarian Rhapsody” No. 19
(“Csárdas nobles”)
Leslie Howard, piano
(Hyperion)

Past Masters:
Brahms: Piano Quartet
in G minor, Op. 25 –
IV: Rondo alla Zingerese
(arrangement by
Arnold Schoenberg)
Chicago Symphony Orchestra/
Robert Craft
(recorded 1964)
(Sony Classical)

traditional:
“Seremoj és Románca”
Apollo Chamber Ensemble
(Navona)

Johann Strauss II:
“Éljen a Magyar!” Polka
Anima Eterna Orchestra/
Jos van Immerseel
(Zig Zag Territories)

Smetana:
“The Bartered Bride” –
Polka
Furiant
“Dance of the Comedians”
Cleveland Orchestra/Christoph von Dohnányi
(Decca)

Dvořák: Bagatelles, Op. 47
Josef Suk & Ivan Ženatý, violins
Jan Talich, viola
Jiří Bárta, cello
Josef Hála, harmonium
(Supraphon)

traditional:
“Wallachian Lament”
Apollo Chamber Ensemble
(Navona)

Janáček: “Lachian Dances”
Basel Symphony Orchestra/
Walter Weller
(Ars Musici)

Tchaikovsky:
“Swan Lake” – Mazurka
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic/Vasily Petrenko
(Avie)

Tchaikovsky:
“Eugene Onegin” –
Polonaise
Staatskapelle Dresden/
James Levine
(Philips)

Michal Kleofas Ogiński:
Polonaise in A minor (“Farewell to the Homeland”)
Mazurka in D major
Polonaise in G minor (“Sirotinuszka”)
Iwo Zaluski, piano
(Olympia)

Chopin: 3 mazurkas, Op. 59
“Polonaise-Fantasie”
in A flat major, Op. 61
Martha Argerich, piano
(Deutsche Grammophon)

traditional:
“Hora de ascultare”
“Hora mare”
“Hora lui Dragol”
Tcha Limberger, violin
Hesperion XXI/
Jordi Savall
(AliaVox)

Past Masters:
Enescu: “Romanian Rhapsody” No. 1
London Symphony Orchestra/Antal Doráti
(recorded 1960)
(Mercury)