STYLE / PROGRAMS / TOURS
STYLE
The incomparable way of sweeping musicians and audiences along and conducting in the tradition of Johann Strauss while playing the violin was from the beginning his special trademark, which distinguishes him from other conductors of this genre. His musical experience, an authentic style-consciousness and profound knowledge of genuine Viennese music-making, combined with modern, technically perfect interpretation, clearly set him apart from many a Johann Strauss-imitators. Wherever he appears, he conveys joy in music, thrills audiences of all ages and music critics. His short comments in several languages, with information about the origin and content of the works, arouse interest in his exceptionally compiled concert programmes.
PROGRAMS
The widespread repertoire shows the development from the dances of the Viennese Classic by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert to the early waltzes of Michael Pamer, Joseph Lanner and Johann Strauss Senior. Next to the standard works and highlights from the inexhaustible oeuvre of the Strauss Dynasty, Guth also introduces less well-known pieces and rediscovered precious rarities, as well as music by other composers of this genre, Franz von Suppé, Carl Michael Ziehrer, or Josef Hellmesberger. Also popular music by foreign composers such as Hans Christian Lumbye, Émile Waldteufel, Jacques Offenbach, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and time and again the entertaining musical jokes of Leroy Anderson.
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Often vocal soloists take part and delight the audience with the hits of Franz Lehár, Imre Kálmán, Robert Stolz and other masters of operetta.
With animated audience participation and humorous surprises, Guth’s varied concert programmes are liked and appreciated everywhere. Above all, because music lovers can not only enjoy the ever-famous highlights, but also discover rarely played works.
CONCERT TOURS
Over the course of six decades, Peter Guth has performed as a soloist, with chamber music, in various ensembles, as an orchestra leader and guest conductor in the world's major concert halls and music centers:
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in all countries of Central, Western, Southern and Eastern Europe, the Baltic States, Scandinavia, in Iceland and Gran Canaria,
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in the Russian Federation, Belarus, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Turkey, Iran, Lebanon and Israel,
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in Asia: Japan, PR China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and South Korea,
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in the USA and Canada,
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in South America: Argentina, Brazil, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Chile,
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in Africa: Egypt, Angola, Mozambique, Rhodesia and South Africa,
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in India, Thailand, Philippines, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji and Hawaii.
In Japan he became one of the most popular Viennese musicians through more than forty concert tours, with his Strauss Festival Orchestra, the Symphony Orchestra of the Vienna Volksoper, the Johann Strauss Ensemble of the Vienna Symphony, as well as three times as guest conductor with the NHK Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo.
Sent by the City of Vienna as musical ambassador with his orchestra, he was one of the first Austrian artists to perform in China after the resumption of relations in 1993. This was followed by more than twenty tours, during which he made Music from Vienna popular with television broadcasts for an audience of millions throughout the country.
In 1997 he brought the Odense Symfoniorkester to China for an official visit from Denmark.