This third volume of music by Eduard Strauss I features many new discoveries including the Electric Lights waltz and the polka, Leaps of Pegasus, displaying Eduard's gift for melody and... more

As an influential figure in Viennese circles that included Mozart and Haydn, Paul Wranitzky was often called upon to take on commissions from the Imperial Court and the Empress Marie Therese in... more

Vitĕzslav Novák was one of the most important Czech composers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The Moravian-Slovak Suite is one of his most popular works, evoking an eventful and... more

One of the great 'march kings' of his time, Julius Fucik gained worldwide fame for his immortal Entry of the Gladiators, but after the composer's death in 1916 many scores were lost. Painstaking... more

ArcoDiva's new release presents oboe music of "a Moravian in Vienna" - Paul Wranitzky (1756-1808). In his day, Paul Wranitzky was one of the most highly regarded musicians in Europe. Moravian by... more

Josef Bohuslav Foerster was the successor to Dvořák as organist in Prague, a lifelong friend of Mahler, and a pivotal figure in Czech music, whose almost 200 compositions take in all the major... more

The sixth volume in this series features three fine examples of Paul Wranitzky's incidental music for Vienna's court theatres, with these world premiere recordings fully demonstrating his... more

Paul Wranitzky began composing late in life compared to his friend Mozart, but quickly rose to become the most important symphonist in Vienna by the end of the 1790s. The dramatic Grande sinfonie... more