Abendblätter, Walzer (1863) - Jacques Offenbach

During the course of a working visit to Vienna in late autumn 1863, Jacques Offenbach (1819-80) presented the Vienna Authors' and Journalists' Association, 'Concordia', with an un-named waltz dedication for their ball in the Sofienbad-Saal to be held on 12 January of the following year. Since the Strauss Orchestra was engaged for the 'Concordia' Ball, Johann Strauss II was also obliged to provide a dedication composition of his own. Aware of Offenbach's involvement, he likewise left it to the Association to provide an appropriate name for his waltz. When the committee chose to entitle Offenbach's work Abendblätter (Evening Papers) and Strauss's Morgenblätter (Morning Papers) an element of friendly rivalry was assured on the evening of the ball. Offenbach, however, was not present at the festivity, and Strauss conducted the premières of both waltzes.

[@antares7880]

This recording is a rare opportunity to listen to Offenbach's twin-brother of Johann's "Morgenblatter". Both waltzes, which had their premiere at Concordia Ball, are excellent, and the audience of that time must have been really lucky to participate in the premiere of such great dances by two leading composers of popular music.

[@mariowiwaPL]

Amazing record

[@Nordstern_1854]

This video is an extremely rare sound source . I am unbelievable to be able to listen to the full orchestral version of the elegant Evening Papers waltz by Jaques Offenbach ! It's a miracle to be able to listen to this by a real sound !!! 😃　 Where did you find out this orchestral parts set scores ? Is it available now ? Anyway nice orchestral performance 👍

[@Musicaprima75]

Published by Jean-Christophe Keck OEK Boosey & Hawkes Berlin.

[@tamitamini]

i need this on spotify😞😞

[@tamitamini]

6:23 love this part lol

[@richardduployen6429]

Thank you. Enchanting! Who's playing? The main theme (there are several others) is similar to Fantasio's (1872) (Finale Act 2). O. did re-use themes occasionally. For instance two dances from the piano collection (Décameron Dramatique) (1854) are used in the ballets of the expanded "Orphée" (1874). the Jacques Offenbach Society

[@Adamov1]

Thank you for your comment. Unfortunately, I don't have any information regarding what orchestra performs this wonderful piece or who conducted it. If I had known, I would have included that information in the description. There is also a very good piano recording of this piece by Marco Sollini: /watch?v=_WbD2poX-w8

[@revivalharpsichord5078]

@@Adamov1 Can you at least tell us the title of the album from which you took this? I'd love to buy it, but all my searches on Amazon come up empty.

[@Adamov1]

@@revivalharpsichord5078 I don't have any information about the album, I found this standalone recording online several years ago.

[@PerCPH2200]

There are many, many old cassette - and reel-tapes (now decaying fast) with dances and marches (etc) recorded from radio-broadcasts floating around with old music lovers - in 99+% without identification of orchestra and/or conductor. Some of them surface here on YT from time to time. Broadcasting orchestras in Austria, Germany and Holland dominate, but for a given archive recording it is down to speculation. Broadcasting-conductors of those days were almost exclusively men, such as Max Schönherr in Wien, Benedict Silbermann with Radio Hilversum, Wilhelm Stephan in Hamburg, etc, etc. As far as I know, Grethe Kolbe in Copenhagen was the only female conductor of this music and era. The sad thing is, that among those old tape-recordings are instances of such archive recordings being the only known full orchestra recording - and no copy of the complete orchestra sheet music has been traced to this day.

[@christophesingio9801]

C'est joli. Mais sans surprise. Offenbach a beaucoup composé "au kilomètre"..