Windsor Festival 2003
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Opening Gala Concert - A Viennese Evening

Thursday 18th September, 7.30pm - Waterloo Chamber, Windsor Castle

On 18th May 1895 the Court Orchestra from Vienna conducted by Herr Eduard Strauss had the honour of playing a selection of music before the Queen and the Royal Family in Windsor Castle. The Windsor Festival re-creates this splendid evening with the BBC Concert Orchestra and Robin Stapleton, and is delighted to welcome Susan Bullock to perform arias by Strauss and Léhar to add to the glittering occasion.

BBC Concert Orchestra:
Susan Bullock - soprano
Robin Stapleton - conductor

J Strauss *Ouverture: Die Fledermaus
E Strauss *Innig und Sinnig – Polka
E Strauss *Waltz – Doctrinen (Op. 79)
J Strauss Aria ‘Zigeunerliede’
(Gipsy Music Playing) from Gipsy Baron
Léhar ‘Love Live Forever’ from Paganini
Josef Strauss *Jocus - Polka schnell
Liszt *Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2

Interval

J Strauss Windsor-Klange
J Strauss *Pizzicato Polka (Op. 449)
J Strauss *Waltz - Seid umschlungen, Millionen
Léhar ‘Einer Wird Kommen’ (One day I’ll find him) from The Zarevitch
Léhar ‘Villia Lied’ from Merry Widow
J Strauss Typsey Polka
J Strauss March from Gypsy Baron
J Strauss *Blue Danube Waltz

*works performed in 1895

Tickets: £30, £25, £21
Code: WC18
Performance will end at 9.30pm
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This evening’s performance is sponsored by Xchanging.