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
Sunday, 11. May 200811.00 o' clock Vienna ⁄ Musikverein ⁄ The Große Musikvereinssaal
Concert at the Musikverein Vienna
Alfred Eschwé conductor Edith Lienbacher soprano
Program Johann Strauss II : Overture to «The Queen’s Lace Handkerchief» Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : «E Susanna non vien! - Dove sono i bei momenti.» recitative and aria of the countess from the opera «Le nozze di Figaro» Johann Strauss II : The Parisienne / Polka francaise op. 238 Johann Strauss II : Lovesongs / Waltz op. 114 Johann Strauss II : In Praise of Women / Polka mazurka op. 315 Johann Strauss II : Ball bouquet / Quick polka op. 380 Johann Strauss II : Voices of Spring / Waltz op. 410 Franz Lehár : Overture to « Viennese Woman» Break Nico Dostal : Spiel mir das Lied von Glück und Treu. Romanze der Janka aus der Operette «Die ungarische Hochzeit» Carl Michael Ziehrer : Viennese Girls / Waltz op. 388 Johann Strauss II : Trinkets Quadrille op. 169 Johann Strauss II : New Pizzicato Polka, from the Operetta «Fürstin Ninetta» op. 449 Johann Strauss II : Tempestuous in Love and Dance op. 393 Johann Strauss II : «Klänge der Heimat», Csardas der Rosalinde aus «Die Fledermaus» Encore Johann Strauss I : Radetzky March op. 228
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