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, 05. May 201311.00 o' clock Vienna ⁄ Musikverein ⁄ The Große Musikvereinssaal
Spring concert 2013
Alfred Eschwé conductor
Program Johann Strauss II : Overture to the operetta «Carnival in Rome» Josef Strauss : Mille fleurs / Polka française op. 4 Josef Strauss : "Gedenke mein" / Polka schnell op. 38 Johann Strauss II : With Us at Home / Waltz op. 361 Josef Strauss : Ardent Love / Polka mazurka op. 129 Josef Strauss : For ever / Quick polka op. 193 Josef Strauss : Watercolours / Waltz op. 258 Break Franz von Suppè : Overture to «Banditenstreiche» Johann Strauss II : Voices of Spring / Waltz op. 410 Johann Strauss II : Bandits Galop / Polka schnell op. 378 Johann Strauss II : Peasants Polka / Polka française op. 276 Johann Strauss II : New Melodies Quadrille on motives from Italian operas op. 254 Johann Strauss II : New Pizzicato Polka, from the Operetta «Fürstin Ninetta» op. 449 Johann Strauss II : Hunting / Quick polka op. 373 Johann Strauss II : The Blue Danube / Waltz op. 314 Johann Strauss I : Radetzky March op. 228
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