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Radecki March is first performed in Vienna in August of 1848, the year of revolutions. It's a march in honour of the most excellent field-martial Count Joseph Radecki von Raditz. The march was in honour of his successful putting down of a whole series of Italian insurrectionaries and seditionists. I like to imagine the world into which it's being released, the people as it were clapping in the audience, because it's a world about to go in a radically different direction.
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