The Austrian orchestra has members that are
hand-picked and undergo a thorough and lengthy trial to even get into the
Orchestra. So for that very reason it is one of the best Orchestras in the
whole world. It tracks back to around 1842.
So the most popular orchestra in the world
was in the charts why ? Well it was down to a huge TV series of the time called
The Onedin Line set in the mid-1800s. The show use a piece of music called
Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia from the ballet Spartacus by Aram Khachaturian.
Such a mouthful was cut down to the theme from the Onedin Line when it was
released.
The music was stirring, and went well with
the film of a clipper on the sea at full mast. The show lasted from 1972 to
1980. The main actors were Anne Stallybrass and Peter Gilmore (died 2012). Anne and Peter were married in real life too. It seemed to be
the last chart entry for the Austrian Orchestra.