Alfred Eschwé is a native of Vienna, Austria. Following his studies in violin, piano and conducting at the Music University of Vienna he spent a number of years conducting at various German opera houses before he accepted a full-time engagement at the Vienna Volksoper, beginning in 1989. Since then, Mr. Eschwé has frequently appeared as guest conductor in Germany (Hamburg State Opera, State Opera “Unter den Linden” in Berlin, Bavarian State Opera in Munich etc.), Italy (Teatro Verdi in Triest, Teatro Massimo in Palermo, Teatro Reggio in Turin, Teatro Filarmonico in Verona, Teatro Bellini in Catania) as well as Den Norske Opera in Oslo and the New National Opera in Tokio. In 2002, Alfred Eschwé began to conduct regularly at the Vienna State Opera. There the now famous DVD of Donizetti’s “L’elisir d’amore” with Anna Netrebko and Rolando Villazón was recorded under Eschwé’s direction. Other DVD productions include the Austrian opera, Der Evangelimann (composed by Wilhelm Kienzl) and Lehár‘s Der Graf von Luxemburg. The list of Mr. Eschwé’s audio recordings is long and varied and includes CDs for Sony Records in collaboration with Angelika Kirchschlager and Simon Keenlyside. In addition to the field of opera and operetta, Alfred Eschwé is a sought-after concert conductor, for example, in Austria with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, the Niederoesterreich Tonkuenstler Orchestra, the Austrian Radio Symphony Orchestra (ORF) and the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, in Germany with the West German Radio Orchestra Cologne (WDR), the South German Radio Orchestra Stuttgart and the Hamburg Symphonic Orchestra, in Italy, the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome and Arena di Verona Orchestra. No Eschwé biography would be complete without mentioning his passion for and expert knowledge of the music of Johann Strauss & Co. For decades he has joined forces with the Vienna Johann Strauss Orchestra with whom he has presented this repertoire around the world, including 270 concerts in Japan alone, but also tours of the United States, South Korea, Italy and Spain.
Thursday, 30. May 200219.30 o' clock Vienna ⁄ Musikverein ⁄ The Große Musikvereinssaal
Concert at the Musikverein Vienna Concert on the occasion of the 175th birthday of Josef Strauss
Alfred Eschwé conductor
Program Franz von Suppè : Ouverture zu «Die schöne Galatea» Josef Strauss : Moulinet Polka / Polka française op. 57 Josef Strauss : Forward! / Quick Polka op. 127 Josef Strauss : Delirien / Waltz op. 212 Josef Strauss : From Afar / Polka mazurka op. 270 Josef Strauss : Pêle-Mêle / Polka schnell op. 161 Josef Strauss : Transactions / Waltz op. 184 Break Franz von Suppè : Ouverture zu «Boccaccio» Josef Strauss : Music of the Spheres / Waltz op. 235 Josef Strauss : Eingesendet / Polka schnell op. 240 Johann & Josef Strauss : Pizzicato Polka Josef Strauss : Dioscuri Quadrille op. 32 Josef Strauss : Carriére / polka fast op. 200 Josef Strauss : My Character is Love and Joy / Waltz op. 263 Encore Josef Strauss : Chatterboxes: musical joke / Polka op. 245 Josef Strauss : Buchstaben / Polka francaise op. 252 Josef Strauss : Without a Care! / Quick polka op. 271 Johann Strauss I : Radetzky March op. 228
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