Pleasure trips by train to places close to — or even some distance from — Vienna, or perhaps by steamship to faraway destinations such as Constantinople, Cairo or even further into the Orient, became extremely popular in the second half of the nineteenth century. And so in the winter of 1863–4 Johann Strauss II composed the quick polka with the title Vergnügungszug, even including in the instrumentation a ‘conductor’s horn’, which was used to sound the signal for a train to depart. The various railway companies, at that time competing with one another, regularly offered their passengers so-called ‘excursion trains’ to attractive destinations.
Johann Strauss II. : Pleasure Train / Polka schnell op. 281 © by WJSO-Archive
Tuesday, 07. January 200318.30 o' clock Osaka ⁄ Festival Hall (フェスティバルホール)
Concert in Osaka Twenty-second Japan tour
Martin Sieghart conductor
Program Johann Strauss II : Overture to the operetta «Waldmeister» (Woodruff) Johann Strauss I : Gitana-Galopp op. 108 Johann Strauss II : From the Mountains / Waltz op. 292 Josef Strauss : Moulinet Polka / Polka française op. 57 Josef Strauss : Chatterboxes: musical joke / Polka op. 245 Josef Strauss : Village Swallows from Austria / Waltz op. 164 Break Carl Michael Ziehrer : Viennese Girls / Waltz op. 388 Carl Michael Ziehrer : Release! / Quick polka op. 386 Johann Strauss II : Town and Country / Polka mazurka op. 322 Josef Strauss : On Holiday Travels! / Quick polka op. 133 Johann Strauss II : Roses from the South / Waltz op. 388 Johann Strauss II : Egyptian March op. 335 Johann Strauss II : Excursion Train / Quick polka op. 281 Johann Strauss II : The Blue Danube / Waltz op. 314 Encore Johann Strauss I : Radetzky March op. 228
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