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André Rieu & His Johann Strauss Orchestra performing The Beautiful Blue Danube live in Vienna. Taken from the DVD Magic of the Violin.
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André Rieu & his Johann Strauss Orchestra playing "The Beautiful Blue Danube" (An der schönen blauen Donau) by composer Johann Strauss II.
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André Rieu & His Johann Strauss Orchestra performing The Beautiful Blue Danube live in Vienna. Taken from the DVD Magic of the Violin.
- Tales from The Vienna Woods
- Highland Cathedral
- Waltzing Matilda
- The Radetzky March
- Edelweiss
- Les Patineurs
- Boléro
- And The Waltz Goes on
- The Blue Danube
- The Second Waltz
Where better to start this round-up than on Rieu’s home turf with a cast iron hit by Johann Strauss II? This fantastic waltz, recalling the folk music of the inhabitants of the Vienna Woods, features a virtuoso part for zither and has bags of energy.
By all rights, this piece shouldn’t really work at all. A bagpipe melody, composed by two German musicians, for some Highland Games held in their native land… it’s all rather confusing in a geographical sense. But the majestic simplicity of the tune, and the opulent arrangement played by André Rieu’s orchestra, somehow combine to give it that magic...
Despite the title, the unofficial national anthem of Australia is not a waltz at all. The phrase ‘to waltz’ means ‘to travel on foot’, and a ‘matilda’ is a swag-bag. But André Rieu brings all his charm to bear on the simple tune, which is one of his best tracks, and when he performed it in Australia he had the audience in floods, waltz or not.
Although Johann Strauss Senior (father of ‘Blue Danube’ Strauss Junior) was the Waltz King of his day, he proved he could turn his hand to works in duple-time sometimes too. ‘The Radetzky March’ was written in 1848 to celebrate a military victory by Field Marshal Joseph Radetzky von Radetz, and instantly became an enormous smash hit. The swagger an...
An Austrian friend of mine once marvelled at how perfectly the American musical partnership of Rodgers (composer) and Hammerstein (lyricist) had captured her compatriots’ national sensibility in The Sound Of Music– but most especially in the folk-like number ‘Edelweiss’. André Rieu turns the Von Trapp family hit into a violin solo, but it loses non...
From one set of skaters to another. ‘Les Patineurs’, or ‘The Skaters’ Waltz’, by Émile Waldteufel is another of those once-heard-never-forgotten waltz melodies, with which Rieu has a particular affinity. The bells suggest a winter wonderland, the upward swoops conjure ladies being lifted into the air, and the propulsive tune has all the energy of g...
Rieu doesn’t just play waltzes. A bolero is a slow-tempo eighteenth-century Spanish dance, but since it is in triple time just like a waltz, it seems to fit right up André Rieu’s street and is one of his best tracks. Ravel’s ‘Boléro’, composed in 1928, is probably the most famous bolero of all time – especially after it was used by Torvill and Dean...
The tale behind this charming, bittersweet little waltz is almost too Hollywood to be true. The actor Sir Anthony Hopkins, who had learned the piano as a boy, wrote the melody in his mid-twenties while doodling at the keyboard, but having something of an academic inferiority complex, he shut it in a drawer and forgot about it. Years later he saw Ri...
The proper German title of this waltz is ‘An Der Schönen Blauen Donau’, which literally means ‘on the beautiful blue Danube’. The Danube is actually rather hideous and muddy-brownish as it flows through central Vienna, but who cares? Strauss’s evergreen melodies and infectious rhythms create the ideal Danube of one’s dreams. It’s possibly the most ...
This is the work that suddenly shot Rieu’s career meteoric overdrive in 1995 and one of the best André Rieu tracks. He’d booked some live airtime during the break of a Champions League football match, and strolled into the middle of the pitch to play this piece. It had just been used on a television advert, so the audience knew it well and decided ...
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All year round, in restaurants, shops, and hotels, there is no escaping The Blue Danube waltz. It is the most famous waltz ever written – actually not one waltz but a chain of five interlinked waltz themes. It is Austria’s second national anthem.
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"The Blue Danube" is the common English title of "An der schönen blauen Donau", Op. 314 (German for "By the Beautiful Blue Danube"), a waltz by the Austrian composer Johann Strauss II, composed in 1866.
