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
Sunday, 05. January 202015.00 o' clock Toyota ⁄ City Concert Hall Nohgakudo
Concert in Toyoda 37th Japan tour
Johannes Wildner conductor
Program Johann Strauss II : Overture to the operetta "The Gypsy Baron" Johann Strauss II : At the Double! / Quick polka op. 348 Josef Strauss : Delirien / Waltz op. 212 Josef Strauss : The Dragonfly / Polka mazurka op. 204 Johann Strauss II : Thunder and Lightning / Quick polka op. 324 Johann Strauss II : Vienna Blood / Waltz op. 354 Break Johann Strauss II : Overture to the operetta «Waldmeister» (Woodruff) Johann Strauss II : Be embraced, ye millions! / Waltz op. 443 Johann Strauss II : Cuckoo Polka / Polka française op. 336 Johann Strauss II : Czardas from the opera «Knight Pasman» op. 441 Johann & Josef Strauss : Pizzicato Polka Johann Strauss II : Excursion Train / Quick polka op. 281 Johann Strauss II : The Blue Danube / Waltz op. 314 Encore Anonymus : Toshi no hajime / Japanese Folk Song Johann Strauss II : Champagne Polka op. 211 Josef Strauss : Without a Care! / Quick polka op. 271 Johann Strauss I : Radetzky March op. 228
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