Writing to his brother, Eduard, on Saturday 2 April 1892, Johann Strauss remarked: "I have sketched a new pizzicato-polka for your concerts in Hamburg. It is this time made slightly more interesting, in accordance with current taste (without really being suited to a concert performance with regard to the musical content). It allows an affected manner of performance - the main thing in a pizzicato number. For where there is no 'singing-tone', a success can only lie, I must admit, in a coquettish performance - since neither piano nor forte offer sufficient variety in such an unusual piece ....." The polka was later inserted as the Act 3 entr'acte in Johann's operette Fürstin Ninetta (1893), where it seems to have been used for the children's ballet sequence. Text: Peter Kemp, 1978 The Johann Strauss Society of Great Britain
Johann Strauss II. : New Pizzicato Polka, from the Operetta «Fürstin Ninetta» op. 449 © by WJSO-Archive
Tuesday, 08. January 200219.00 o' clock Shizuoka ⁄ Oigawa-cho Bunka Kaikan
Concert in Shizuoka Twenty-first Japan tour
Martin Sieghart conductor Walther Schulz solo cello
Program Johann Strauss II : Overture to the operetta "The Gypsy Baron" Joseph Lanner : Cerrito Polka op. 189 Joseph Lanner : Die Schönbrunner / Waltz op. 200 Josef Strauss : Without a Care! / Quick polka op. 271 Johann Strauss II : Dolci pianti / Romance for violoncello and orchestra Franz Lehár : Gold and Silver / Waltz op. 79 Break Franz von Suppè : Ouverture zu «Ein Morgen, ein Mittag, ein Abend in Wien» Johann Strauss I : Fortuna-Galopp op. 69 Johann Strauss II : Wine, Women and Song / Waltz op. 333 Johann Strauss II : New Pizzicato Polka, from the Operetta «Fürstin Ninetta» op. 449 Johann Strauss II : Cuckoo Polka / Polka française op. 336 Johann Strauss II : The Blue Danube / Waltz op. 314 Encore Johann Strauss I : Radetzky March op. 228
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