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In this magnificent 11 CD box set, experience the best ballroom classical pieces performed by the Weiner johann Strauss Orchester under famed conductor Willi Boskovsky. Composers Featured in this set including Emile Waldteufel, Franz Lehar, Franz von Suppe, Joseph Lanner and Johann Strauss II. All these composers were known for thieir work with classical dance music such as plkas, waltzes and gallops. Ballroom Classics contains great classical dance pieces like Stauss' Radetzky March, which was dedicated to the Austrian Field Marshall Joseph Radetzky von Radetz and became wuite a poplar march among sldiers and the light hearted Champagne-polka wich evokes the uncorking of champagne bottles. Many of these pieces will be familiar from the famous vienna philharmonic New Year's Day Concerts regularly broadcast on televison around the world, including Light as a Feather, Thunder and Lightning and in Krapfen's Woods.