Yet again the track timings are annoyingly absent from the Clemens Hellsberg, chairman of the Vienna The accompanying booklet contains the customary interesting and Radetzky March, complete with audience participation, exceed Vienna just melted with charm and a glorious Viennese lilt. Works By the Beautiful Blue Danube, a musical postcard of II/Josef Strauss is absent for a second year. Much loved encores the third most frequently played piece at the New The Prank Polka is an enjoyable madcap romp. Over its short span theīouquet Polka with its express train speed bursts with excitement and Of the concert premieres, the stirringĬaroline Gallop fizzes with effervescence. Without seemingly trying too hard Barenboimĭemonstrates his innate ability to conjure a near-fantasy world of unbridled It’s the player’s conspicuous enthusiasm that prevents the musicĬoming across as over-familiar.
The music of the Straussįamily runs through the orchestra’s veins like lifeblood and Philharmonic intimately and this certainly shows. Of the large number of New Year’s Concert recordingsĪvailable, going back to the days of Willi Boskovsky, this 2014 recording is Moonlight Interlude that sets the stage for the final scene of the The Vienna Philharmonic marked this by including the The year 2014 is the 150th anniversary of the birth of Richard 234, the collaborative effort by Johann Strauss II and Josef Writing the piece it seems that Delibes was inspired by the Pizzicato Represented by the well known Pizzicati from Sylvia. Léo Delibes (1836-1891), renowned for his ballets and operas, is The esteemed company it proved disappointing bland. ‘polka française’ Philippina although compared to It was good having the opportunity to hear his With the Vienna Philharmonic being the orchestra’s principal conductorįor three seasons. Vienna life, Josef Hellmesberger II (1855-1907) held a strong connection Lanner was celebrated in his day as much as Johann Strauss I. One of the initial pioneering Viennese waltz composers, Viennese composer Joseph Lanner (1801-1843) with his waltz The Non-members of the Strauss family also represented are headed by The Helenen Quadrille is based on themes from Offenbach’s
Here Barenboim, in romantic mood, pays his ownĬharming compliment to his wife Elena by dedicating the performance to her. With two followed by Eduard Strauss (1835-1916) with the concert opener, the Works, is the member of the Strauss dynasty with the highest representationĪt the concert followed by Josef Strauss with four, then Johann Strauss I Johann Strauss II (1825-1899), with seven Selected Josef Strauss’s waltz Palms of Peace (or Oliveīranch Waltz) a work reflecting the composer’sįeelings following the bloody losses at the Battle of Königgrätzīetween Prussia and Austria. InĪdmiration of Barenboim’s work as a peace campaigner the orchestra Making its first appearance, and two works by Johann Strauss II theĮgyptian March and the fast polka Stormy in Love and Dance. These were the Caroline Gallop from Johann Strauss I (1804-1849) They felt were particularly fitting to reflect peace and reconciliation. Marking the centenary, the orchestra and conductor chose three works that To ask Barenboim, a well known peace activist, to take the baton once again. Year of the outbreak of World War I the Vienna Philharmonic felt it fitting Held in the beautifully decked out Golden Hall.
#Pizzicato polka op. 234 series
Since Clemens Krauss took the baton in 1939 during the blackestĬhapter in Austria’s history this annual series of concerts has been
There were nine first performances, five of which are works from the pen of Over a festive mix of the customary showpieces and the unfamiliar. In the best traditions of the New Year's Concert Barenboim presided Previous years when an equally zealous surveillance was kept on Dame Julie (Elena Bashkirova) and their son Michael Barenboim a change of target from Television camera in the Golden Hall kept a regular watch on Mrs Barenboim In recent decades some conductors have not had the necessary charisma toĬarry off this extraordinarily special event. Once again I witnessed Barenboim, musicalĪlchemist that he is, mixing special ingredients into joyous music. The live television transmission such a wonderfully civilised part of New Millions of others across ninety countries of the world I took time to watch The second time that Daniel Barenboim had conducted the Vienna PhilharmonicĪt the New Year’s Concert the previous time was in 2009. This Sony double CD set is the complete New Year’s ConcertĢ014 recorded live in the Golden Hall of the Musikverein, Vienna.
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