Dittersdorf / Stamm / Lockhart / Strp - Doktor Und Apotheker - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Anonym / Aufschnaiter / Storace / Valente - Brunnenthaler Konzertsommer [COMPACT DISCS] date 03/24/2017

Mozart / Neudauer / Deutsche Radio Phil - VLN Cons 1-5 & Other Works for Orch [COMPACT DISCS] date 09/30/2014

This two-album set contains four different kinds of iterations of the Viennese spirit Duets, Lieder, dialect literature, and Schrammelmusik, all of which stem from the vineyard that is Vienna and all of which, for all their variety and different flavor, stand for what makes Vienna, musically speaking. It's a fortuitous confluence of circumstances when a celebrated operatic bass like Günther Groissböck and a likewise popular tenor like Karl-Michael Ebner develop a friendship and discover their mutual love for Wienerlied, Vienna's unique musical and socio-cultural phenomenon. Even more so, if this leads to an album production like the one at hand, which additionally features spoken interludes - witty but also pointed, biting, and sarcastic Viennese poems by Trude Marzik, Josef Weinheber and H. C. Artmann, read with great charm by Christoph Wagner-Trenkwitz - as well as captivating instrumentals by the Philharmonia-Schrammeln.