Johann Strauss : Russischer Marsch op. 426 (Russian March) - Riccardo Muti / Wiener Philharmoniker

The Russischer Marsch, one of Johann Strauss’s ’characteristic marches’, belongs to that group of new compositions with which the Viennese maestro charmed audiences attending his series of charity concerts in St. Petersburg in 1886. This trip to Russia, made at the invitation of the ’Russian Society of the Red Cross’ and a children’s charity, was to be Johann’s final visit there, and came after a lapse of seventeen years since his last concert engagement at nearby Pavlovsk (1869). There had been many change