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Good morning, and a very happy New Year from the Golden Hall | 0:00:52 | 0:00:55 | |
of the Musikverein here in Vienna. | 0:00:55 | 0:00:58 | |
This year, the Vienna Philharmonic welcome the youngest musician ever | 0:00:58 | 0:01:01 | |
to lead the New Year's Day Concert, the Venezuelan maestro | 0:01:01 | 0:01:05 | |
Gustavo Dudamel. | 0:01:05 | 0:01:07 | |
Waltzes, polkas and quadrilles by three members of the Strauss | 0:01:07 | 0:01:10 | |
family on the programme this year, along with pieces by Lehar, | 0:01:10 | 0:01:14 | |
Waldteufel, Otto Nicolai and Franz von Suppe. | 0:01:14 | 0:01:17 | |
The New Year's Day Concert performance by the Vienna | 0:01:17 | 0:01:19 | |
Philharmonic is supported by Rolex. | 0:01:19 | 0:01:21 | |
A record eight works this year that are receiving their first outing | 0:01:21 | 0:01:24 | |
at a New Year's Day Concert | 0:01:24 | 0:01:26 | |
and there's a new uniform for the players of the Vienna | 0:01:26 | 0:01:29 | |
Philharmonic as well. | 0:01:29 | 0:01:30 | |
But more about that later. | 0:01:30 | 0:01:34 | |
Well, not Strauss to begin this year but Lehar - | 0:01:34 | 0:01:36 | |
a stirring march from what was his first theatrical hit in this | 0:01:36 | 0:01:39 | |
city - Wiener Frauen - the Women of Vienna - | 0:01:39 | 0:01:43 | |
which premiered in 1902. | 0:01:43 | 0:01:47 | |
Gustavo Dudamel makes his way onto the platform to join | 0:01:49 | 0:01:53 | |
the Vienna Philharmonic and open this 2017 New Year's Day Concert. | 0:01:53 | 0:01:58 | |
MUSIC: Nechledil-Marsch from Wiener Frauen by Franz Lehar | 0:02:04 | 0:02:07 | |
The Nechledil March, by Franz Lehar. | 0:04:35 | 0:04:40 | |
Skates on next. | 0:04:40 | 0:04:44 | |
Given the fact there's a spectacular rink | 0:04:44 | 0:04:46 | |
in front of the Rathaus, Vienna's City Hall | 0:04:46 | 0:04:48 | |
it seems strange that Les Patineurs has never before featured | 0:04:48 | 0:04:50 | |
in this concert. | 0:04:50 | 0:04:51 | |
Music by Emil Waldteufel. | 0:04:51 | 0:04:55 | |
MUSIC: Les Patineurs by Emile Waldteufel | 0:04:57 | 0:05:00 | |
Reiner Honeck, leader of the Vienna Philharmonic, | 0:12:44 | 0:12:49 | |
Gustavo Dudamel conducting the Skaters Waltz, Les Patineurs, | 0:12:49 | 0:12:51 | |
by Emile Waldteufel. | 0:12:51 | 0:12:54 | |
Waldteufel sometimes described as the Johann Strauss of Paris, | 0:12:54 | 0:12:56 | |
he wrote 300 dances, half of them waltzes, | 0:12:56 | 0:12:58 | |
appointed court pianist to Napoleon III in 1865 and was to conduct state | 0:12:58 | 0:13:02 | |
balls in France for the remainder of the 19th century. | 0:13:02 | 0:13:06 | |
Well, Johann Jr is the first member of the Strauss family | 0:13:08 | 0:13:11 | |
we are going to hear this New Year's Day. | 0:13:11 | 0:13:13 | |
He was conducting the summer season at Pavlovsk near St Petersburg | 0:13:13 | 0:13:19 | |
when he wrote a polka, which he announced there was to be | 0:13:19 | 0:13:21 | |
called Forget Me Not. | 0:13:21 | 0:13:23 | |
In fact, he had planned another title for the piece, | 0:13:23 | 0:13:26 | |
which he only announced when he got home, There's Only One Imperial | 0:13:26 | 0:13:29 | |
City, Theres Only One Vienna. | 0:13:29 | 0:13:31 | |
It includes a nod to the Imperial Austrian national anthem. | 0:13:31 | 0:13:35 | |
MUSIC: 'S gibt nur a Kaiserstadt, 's gibt nur a Wien by Johann Strauss Jr | 0:13:40 | 0:13:44 | |
A salute to this city, Vienna, in the Kaiserstadt | 0:17:20 | 0:17:23 | |
polka by Johann Strauss. | 0:17:23 | 0:17:24 | |
A nod to Maria Theresa too, the only female ruler | 0:17:24 | 0:17:26 | |
of the Habsburg dominions, born 300 years ago this year. | 0:17:26 | 0:17:30 | |
Strauss's younger brother Josef next - celebrating the season, | 0:17:30 | 0:17:33 | |
the fast polka Winterlust. | 0:17:33 | 0:17:35 | |
Winterlust by Josef Strauss, written for the Dianasaal here in Vienna, | 0:20:12 | 0:20:17 | |
which boasted a ballroom, the floor of which could be | 0:20:17 | 0:20:20 | |
turned into an ice rink. | 0:20:20 | 0:20:21 | |
That polka premiered at a masked ball, complete | 0:20:21 | 0:20:24 | |
with fake flurries of snow, described as the highlight | 0:20:24 | 0:20:26 | |
of the 1862 carnival season. | 0:20:26 | 0:20:29 | |
Julie Andrews, one of the guests this year | 0:20:29 | 0:20:31 | |
at the New Year's Day concert. | 0:20:31 | 0:20:37 | |
Well, the Vienna Philharmonic Ball is still one of the highpoints | 0:20:37 | 0:20:40 | |
of the season here in Vienna. | 0:20:40 | 0:20:41 | |
This year it takes place on January 19th. | 0:20:41 | 0:20:43 | |
Semyon Bychkov will conduct the orchestra. | 0:20:43 | 0:20:44 | |
The evening opens with a procession of debutantes, who have | 0:20:44 | 0:20:47 | |
to prove their dancing skills before they get to take part. | 0:20:47 | 0:20:55 | |
In the time of the Strausses there were so many balls that | 0:20:55 | 0:20:58 | |
all efforts had to be made to attract attention. | 0:20:58 | 0:21:00 | |
"Sensational decorations and magnificent lighting effects" | 0:21:00 | 0:21:02 | |
promised for the ball at which the next | 0:21:02 | 0:21:04 | |
work was introduced. | 0:21:04 | 0:21:05 | |
The evening was called The Journey Into The Lake Of Fire, | 0:21:05 | 0:21:08 | |
a reference to the devil in the Biblical book of Revelation. | 0:21:08 | 0:21:11 | |
And the new waltz that Strauss wrote for the occasion was titled | 0:21:11 | 0:21:14 | |
Mephistopheles' Calls from Hell. | 0:21:14 | 0:21:16 | |
It was January 1870 that this magnificent concert hall | 0:21:20 | 0:21:22 | |
opened to the public. | 0:21:22 | 0:21:25 | |
"From all sides spring golden colours," wrote the great critic | 0:21:25 | 0:21:28 | |
Eduard Hanslick of the new building. | 0:21:28 | 0:21:33 | |
Gustavo Dudamel returns to conduct Johann Strauss Jr. | 0:21:33 | 0:21:36 | |
MUSIC: Mephistos Hollenrufe by Johann Strauss Jr | 0:21:45 | 0:21:50 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:29:33 | 0:29:35 | |
Mephistopheles' Calls from Hell, a waltz by Johann Strauss Jr. | 0:29:38 | 0:29:40 | |
Well, we're going to finish part one of this 2017 New Year's Day Concert | 0:29:43 | 0:29:49 | |
with one of his fast polkas, the title taken from the libretto | 0:29:49 | 0:29:52 | |
of his opera A Night In Venice, an optimistic title too - | 0:29:52 | 0:29:55 | |
We're Not That Worried. | 0:29:55 | 0:29:58 | |
MUSIC: So angstlich sind wir nicht by Johann Strauss Jr | 0:30:06 | 0:30:11 | |
Gustavo Dudamel conducting the Vienna Philharmonic | 0:32:18 | 0:32:22 | |
this New Year's Day in Johann Strauss Jr's | 0:32:22 | 0:32:25 | |
polka We're Not That Worried. | 0:32:25 | 0:32:29 | |
Well, Franz von Suppe was the father of Viennese operetta. | 0:32:36 | 0:32:38 | |
Born in Split, now in Croatia, but once part | 0:32:38 | 0:32:40 | |
of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, | 0:32:40 | 0:32:41 | |
he came to Vienna at 16 to study at the Conservatoire. | 0:32:41 | 0:32:44 | |
He created more than 200 stage works, | 0:32:44 | 0:32:46 | |
most of them relegated to dusty shelves, | 0:32:46 | 0:32:49 | |
but the overture to Pique Dame, The Queen Of Spades, | 0:32:49 | 0:32:52 | |
has found an independent life. | 0:32:52 | 0:32:57 | |
Gustavo Dudamel makes his way onto the platform. | 0:32:57 | 0:32:59 | |
The Vienna Philharmonic rises to its feet | 0:32:59 | 0:33:01 | |
to greet him this New Year's Day. | 0:33:01 | 0:33:06 | |
MUSIC: Overture from the operetta Pique Dame | 0:33:18 | 0:33:23 | |
The overture to Franz von Suppe's Pique Dame. | 0:40:53 | 0:40:56 | |
The flute section led by Karl Heinz Schutz. | 0:40:56 | 0:41:00 | |
Gustavo Dudamel conducting the Vienna Philharmonic | 0:41:00 | 0:41:02 | |
this New Year's Day. | 0:41:02 | 0:41:06 | |
Ballet has long been a popular part of the New Year's Day Concert, | 0:41:07 | 0:41:10 | |
and this year we meet dancers from the Vienna State Ballet | 0:41:10 | 0:41:13 | |
in the park of the Hermesvilla, built by the Emporer Franz Josef | 0:41:13 | 0:41:17 | |
in an attempt to curb the wanderlust of his beloved wife Sisi. | 0:41:17 | 0:41:21 | |
The music is a waltz from Der Schatzmeister, | 0:41:23 | 0:41:25 | |
an operetta by Carl Michael Ziehrer. | 0:41:25 | 0:41:28 | |
MUSIC: Hereinspaziert! by Carl M Ziehrer | 0:41:39 | 0:41:42 | |
Gustavo Dudamel conducting the waltz Step Right Up. | 0:49:13 | 0:49:18 | |
From Der Schatzmeister by Carl Michael Ziehrer. | 0:49:18 | 0:49:22 | |
The Italian Renato Zanella, artistic director of | 0:49:26 | 0:49:28 | |
Vienna State Ballet for ten years, the choreographer | 0:49:28 | 0:49:30 | |
for today's concert. | 0:49:30 | 0:49:37 | |
Coming on to the stage now, members of the Vienna | 0:49:37 | 0:49:39 | |
Singverein, an amateur chorus long associated with the orchestra. | 0:49:39 | 0:49:42 | |
They are going to join the Vienna Philharmonic in | 0:49:42 | 0:49:44 | |
the Moonrise from Otto Nicholai's comic opera The Merry Wives | 0:49:44 | 0:49:47 | |
of Windsor, based on Shakespeare. | 0:49:47 | 0:49:48 | |
Last year we marked the 400th anniversary | 0:49:48 | 0:49:55 | |
of William Shakespeare's death - this year in Vienna the celebrations | 0:49:55 | 0:49:58 | |
are for the 175th anniversary of the founding of the Vienna | 0:49:58 | 0:50:00 | |
Philharmonic. | 0:50:00 | 0:50:01 | |
And Otto Nicholai was one of the founders, | 0:50:01 | 0:50:03 | |
one of three men who, in 1842, | 0:50:03 | 0:50:05 | |
decided to launch a professional orchestra in this city. | 0:50:05 | 0:50:07 | |
Nicolai set out the rules, which survive to this day, | 0:50:07 | 0:50:12 | |
the orchestra is self governing, players choose the conductor, | 0:50:12 | 0:50:14 | |
and divide the earnings amongst themselves. | 0:50:14 | 0:50:16 | |
Moonrise, from the Merry Wives of Windsor. | 0:50:16 | 0:50:18 | |
MUSIC: Mondaufgang by Otto Nicolai | 0:50:38 | 0:50:44 | |
The Vienna Singverein and Vienna Philharmonic honouring | 0:55:09 | 0:55:12 | |
Otto Nicholai, one of the orchestra's founders 175 years ago. | 0:55:12 | 0:55:16 | |
Moonrise, from his opera The Merry Wives of Windsor. | 0:55:16 | 0:55:20 | |
Johannes Prinz - the Chorus Master. | 0:55:20 | 0:55:30 | |
Just a second to enjoy the magnificent flowers here today. | 0:55:35 | 0:55:39 | |
30,000 blossoms, nurtured for today by the staff | 0:55:39 | 0:55:41 | |
of Vienna's Municipal Department No 42 - which runs the city's | 0:55:41 | 0:55:44 | |
parks and gardens. | 0:55:44 | 0:55:45 | |
The director keen to reflect on the rich colours of Venezuela, | 0:55:45 | 0:55:55 | |
you might see the odd pineapple and lemons in the mix too. | 0:55:55 | 0:55:59 | |
Pink and green flamingo flowers, cymbidia. | 0:55:59 | 0:56:01 | |
Amaryllis, too. | 0:56:01 | 0:56:04 | |
MUSIC: Pepita-Polka by Johann Strauss II | 0:56:04 | 0:56:08 | |
That was The Pepita Polka by Johann Strauss. | 0:59:25 | 0:59:29 | |
Strauss honouring a famous Spanish dancer who came | 0:59:29 | 0:59:31 | |
to Vienna in the 1850s. | 0:59:31 | 0:59:32 | |
He was always very good at responding to contemporary | 0:59:32 | 0:59:41 | |
events - in 1873 he wrote a quadrille | 0:59:41 | 0:59:44 | |
for the opening of a new Rotunda | 0:59:44 | 0:59:46 | |
in Vienna which had an English architect. | 0:59:46 | 0:59:49 | |
MUSIC: Rotunde-Quadrille by Johann Strauss II | 0:59:53 | 0:59:57 | |
The Rotunde-Quadrille, | 1:04:49 | 1:04:50 | |
written by Strauss for the World's Fair of 1873. | 1:04:50 | 1:04:54 | |
Alas, weeks of rainfall, a cholera epidemic, | 1:04:54 | 1:04:56 | |
a stock-market crash and global economic crisis | 1:04:56 | 1:04:59 | |
rendered the event a flop. | 1:04:59 | 1:05:02 | |
The rotunda was finally destroyed by a fire in 1937. | 1:05:02 | 1:05:06 | |
The famous Lipizzaner horses are one of the symbols of Vienna. | 1:05:11 | 1:05:15 | |
We'll see them next as we visit the Spanish Riding School, | 1:05:15 | 1:05:17 | |
accompanied by Strauss's waltz The Extravagants. | 1:05:17 | 1:05:21 | |
By the way, they are not actually white horses, they are dark, they | 1:05:22 | 1:05:26 | |
get progressively lighter grey each year. | 1:05:26 | 1:05:30 | |
MUSIC: Die Extravaganten by Johann Strauss II | 1:05:37 | 1:05:41 | |
Lipizzaner horses and Gustavo Dudamel conducting | 1:12:57 | 1:12:58 | |
the Vienna Philharmonic in Johann Strauss Jr's | 1:12:58 | 1:13:02 | |
waltz The Extravagants. | 1:13:03 | 1:13:04 | |
Written for the Solicitors Ball. | 1:13:04 | 1:13:07 | |
His father next, and a galop he composed after a group | 1:13:07 | 1:13:10 | |
of Indian classical dancers visited Vienna in the late 1830s. | 1:13:10 | 1:13:13 | |
Received, it seems, with confused curiosity from the Viennese public. | 1:13:13 | 1:13:17 | |
MUSIC: Indianer-Galopp by Johann Strauss | 1:13:23 | 1:13:27 | |
The Indian Galop by Johann Strauss Senior. | 1:15:34 | 1:15:41 | |
We're working our way through the family, | 1:15:41 | 1:15:43 | |
his middle son Josef next, | 1:15:43 | 1:15:45 | |
taking us out of Vienna to Nusswald, a valley in southeastern | 1:15:45 | 1:15:48 | |
Lower Austria, populated in the 19th century | 1:15:48 | 1:15:50 | |
predominantly by Protestant timber workers. | 1:15:50 | 1:15:51 | |
This is the polka, The Girl From Nasswald. | 1:15:51 | 1:15:56 | |
MUSIC: Die Nasswalderin by Johann Strauss | 1:16:08 | 1:16:10 | |
A man who can play the whistle and conduct at the same time. | 1:22:00 | 1:22:04 | |
Gustavo Dudamel conducting The Girl from Nusswald - by Josef Strauss. | 1:22:04 | 1:22:14 | |
More dancing next this New Year's Day. | 1:22:18 | 1:22:20 | |
You may have detected that the ballet we saw earlier | 1:22:20 | 1:22:22 | |
was recorded on a hot summer's day. | 1:22:22 | 1:22:24 | |
Next, though, we have dancers actually with us here | 1:22:24 | 1:22:26 | |
in the Musikverein - students of the Vienna State | 1:22:26 | 1:22:28 | |
Opera Ballet Academy. | 1:22:28 | 1:22:29 | |
They are going to dance to a polka Johann Strauss | 1:22:29 | 1:22:38 | |
wrote for a party at his own Palace in 1888. | 1:22:38 | 1:22:44 | |
100 guests, the last of whom didn't leave until 8:30 in the morning. | 1:22:44 | 1:22:47 | |
You might be able to relate to that this New Year's Day! | 1:22:47 | 1:22:50 | |
MUSIC: Auf zum Tanze! By Johann Strauss II | 1:22:50 | 1:22:52 | |
Members of the Vienna State Opera Ballet Academy. | 1:25:49 | 1:25:55 | |
And a comedy role for one of the ushers here at the Musikverein, | 1:25:55 | 1:25:58 | |
or maybe he's a costumed dancer. | 1:25:58 | 1:26:00 | |
Gustavo Dudamel conducting. | 1:26:00 | 1:26:02 | |
Now, Strauss's first operetta was called | 1:26:02 | 1:26:04 | |
Indigo and the 40 Thieves. | 1:26:04 | 1:26:08 | |
It struggled under an incredibly complicated storyline. | 1:26:08 | 1:26:11 | |
But the waltz that survived from the piece, | 1:26:11 | 1:26:17 | |
A Thousand and One Nights, considered one of his finest. | 1:26:17 | 1:26:20 | |
MUSIC: Tausend und eine Nacht by Johann Strauss II | 1:26:36 | 1:26:39 | |
The waltz A Thousand And One Nights by Johann Strauss, | 1:34:54 | 1:34:56 | |
Gustavo Dudamel conducting the Vienna Philharmonic. | 1:34:56 | 1:35:04 | |
The trumpeter, Jurgen Pochhacker. | 1:35:04 | 1:35:08 | |
Now, Vienna has museums filled with Old Masters and works | 1:35:09 | 1:35:11 | |
by Klimt and Schiele, | 1:35:11 | 1:35:15 | |
but it also has museums dedicated to globes, to funerals, | 1:35:15 | 1:35:18 | |
and the language Esperanto, | 1:35:18 | 1:35:23 | |
all of which make the Clock Museum seem pretty mainstream. | 1:35:23 | 1:35:25 | |
We visit it now, | 1:35:25 | 1:35:26 | |
with Johann Strauss's Tik-Tak-Polka from Die Fledermaus. | 1:35:26 | 1:35:30 | |
It's located in one of the oldest houses in the centre of the city, | 1:35:30 | 1:35:36 | |
and it's home to around 4,000 clocks. | 1:35:36 | 1:35:40 | |
MUSIC: Tik-Tak by Johann Strauss II | 1:35:43 | 1:35:47 | |
Strauss' Tik-Tak-Polka. | 1:38:05 | 1:38:09 | |
That comes from Strauss' operetta Die Fledermaus, | 1:38:09 | 1:38:11 | |
one of the traditions of New Year in Vienna, | 1:38:11 | 1:38:14 | |
on last night and again this evening, | 1:38:14 | 1:38:16 | |
at the both the Volksoper and the Vienna State Opera, | 1:38:16 | 1:38:18 | |
where Otto Schenk's lavish production gets another outing. | 1:38:18 | 1:38:23 | |
Other New Year traditions here include the bells | 1:38:23 | 1:38:25 | |
of the Stephansdom ringing out the old and in the new, | 1:38:25 | 1:38:28 | |
loud fireworks across the city, pigs in porcelain, | 1:38:28 | 1:38:32 | |
glass and marzipan to bring good luck, | 1:38:32 | 1:38:34 | |
and Dinner For One on the television. | 1:38:34 | 1:38:40 | |
Its punchline, same procedure as every year, | 1:38:40 | 1:38:42 | |
seems to rather reflect the continuity | 1:38:42 | 1:38:44 | |
reassuring as the new year comes. | 1:38:44 | 1:38:46 | |
Flowers for Gustavo Dudamel, who next is going to conduct the one | 1:38:46 | 1:38:51 | |
member of the Strauss family we haven't featured so far this year | 1:38:51 | 1:38:56 | |
- Eduard Strauss, the youngest of the brothers, | 1:38:56 | 1:38:58 | |
who became conductor of the Strauss Orchestra in 1861, | 1:38:58 | 1:39:01 | |
touring with them across two continents, | 1:39:01 | 1:39:03 | |
and performing in 840 towns and cities. | 1:39:03 | 1:39:07 | |
When he disbanded the orchestra in 1901 the last work he conducted | 1:39:08 | 1:39:11 | |
was the fast polka With Pleasure. | 1:39:11 | 1:39:15 | |
MUSIC: Mit Vergnugen by Eduard Strauss | 1:39:16 | 1:39:20 | |
Eduard Strauss's polka With Pleasure. | 1:41:12 | 1:41:16 | |
If you're a regular viewer, I don't know if you've noticed | 1:41:18 | 1:41:20 | |
that the Vienna Philharmonic players and Maestro Dudamel | 1:41:20 | 1:41:22 | |
have new concert attire. | 1:41:22 | 1:41:26 | |
And British too, designed by Dame Vivienne Westwood | 1:41:26 | 1:41:28 | |
and her Austrian husband, Andreas Kronthaler, | 1:41:28 | 1:41:32 | |
tailored in the elegant cut of Savile Row bespoke, | 1:41:32 | 1:41:35 | |
a modern interpretation of the traditional tailcoat for men, | 1:41:35 | 1:41:41 | |
the women of the orchestra, I've counted seven on stage today, | 1:41:41 | 1:41:44 | |
get a short jacket inspired by a frock coat. | 1:41:44 | 1:41:47 | |
The outfits making their first appearance on stage today. | 1:41:47 | 1:41:51 | |
175 years of the Vienna Philharmonic, | 1:41:52 | 1:41:54 | |
150 years of the Blue Danube. | 1:41:54 | 1:41:56 | |
First heard in February 1867 at a ball in Leopoldstadt district, | 1:41:56 | 1:42:01 | |
then performed with words sung by choir. | 1:42:01 | 1:42:05 | |
The Austrian Mint has produced a silver five | 1:42:05 | 1:42:07 | |
euro coin to celebrate. | 1:42:07 | 1:42:08 | |
Rather appropriate, as Strauss was paid one gold ducat | 1:42:08 | 1:42:12 | |
when he wrote the piece. | 1:42:12 | 1:42:14 | |
A work that over the years has become an unofficial | 1:42:14 | 1:42:17 | |
national anthem of Austria, | 1:42:17 | 1:42:20 | |
key to the New Year and this New Year's Day Concert. | 1:42:20 | 1:42:25 | |
Conducted by Gustavo Dudamel, music director of the Los | 1:42:25 | 1:42:28 | |
Angeles Philharmonic, conductor of the | 1:42:28 | 1:42:31 | |
Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra in Venezuela. | 1:42:31 | 1:42:35 | |
MUSIC: An der schonen blauen Donau by Johann Strauss II | 1:42:47 | 1:42:51 | |
LAUGHTER | 1:42:59 | 1:43:02 | |
Die Wiener Philharmoniker und ich wunschen Ihnen... | 1:43:04 | 1:43:08 | |
ALL: Prosit Neujahr! | 1:43:10 | 1:43:14 | |
MUSIC: An der schonen blauen Donau by Johann Strauss II | 1:43:40 | 1:43:45 | |
APPLAUSE | 1:53:16 | 1:53:19 | |
The Blue Danube, by Johann Strauss Jr, | 1:53:20 | 1:53:24 | |
horn soloist, Josef Reif. | 1:53:24 | 1:53:28 | |
The Blue Danube written 150 years ago. | 1:53:28 | 1:53:31 | |
Rainer Honeck, Leader of the orchestra and Albena | 1:53:34 | 1:53:36 | |
Danailova, co-Leader. | 1:53:36 | 1:53:41 | |
175 years old this year the Vienna Philharminic. | 1:53:41 | 1:53:50 | |
Gustavo Dudamel, at 35, the youngest conductor ever to lead | 1:53:50 | 1:53:58 | |
the New Year's Concert, he turns 36 at the end | 1:53:58 | 1:54:00 | |
of this month. | 1:54:00 | 1:54:01 | |
Well, there is one New Year tradition left. | 1:54:01 | 1:54:03 | |
It was an Austrian Army band who premiered Strauss senior's | 1:54:03 | 1:54:05 | |
Radetsky March in 1848. | 1:54:05 | 1:54:06 | |
Then it was the officers who clapped and stamped their heels | 1:54:06 | 1:54:09 | |
in time with the music. | 1:54:09 | 1:54:10 | |
Now the entire audience of the Musikverein beats something | 1:54:10 | 1:54:12 | |
approximating time. | 1:54:12 | 1:54:15 | |
MUSIC: Radetzky-Marsch by Johann Strauss | 1:54:15 | 1:54:20 | |
Great direction of the audience here from Gustavo Dudamel. | 1:57:24 | 1:57:29 | |
The Vienna Philharmonic playing the Radetsky March | 1:57:29 | 1:57:30 | |
by Johann Strauss senior. | 1:57:30 | 1:57:34 | |
And so 2017 is upon us, no stopping the clock or the calendar. | 1:57:34 | 1:57:43 | |
As Walter Scott said, "Each age has deemed the new-born year | 1:57:43 | 1:57:45 | |
the fittest time for festal cheer." | 1:57:45 | 1:57:47 | |
Cheer may be in shorter supply than usual this New Year. | 1:57:47 | 1:57:50 | |
But I hope the rich tradition of this concert has | 1:57:50 | 1:57:52 | |
brought at least some to you. | 1:57:52 | 1:57:56 | |
Julie Andrews in the audience here, she presents this concert | 1:57:56 | 1:57:58 | |
on American television. | 1:57:58 | 1:58:03 | |
I tell you what, the audience here may look well behaved | 1:58:03 | 1:58:06 | |
but as soon as we go | 1:58:06 | 1:58:07 | |
off air there'll be something of a scramble to grab a handful | 1:58:07 | 1:58:10 | |
of the wonderful flowers that decorate the hall. | 1:58:10 | 1:58:12 | |
Many thanks to our colleagues at ORF and Eurovision. | 1:58:12 | 1:58:14 | |
This is Petroc Trelawny in Vienna signing off. | 1:58:14 | 1:58:16 | |
Happy New Year. | 1:58:16 | 1:58:19 |