:00:58. > :01:02.Radio Three live in Vienna this New Year's Day.
:01:02. > :01:05.A very happy New Year to you. Good morning from Vienna as we welcome
:01:05. > :01:10.viewers to BBC Two. Here in the Australian capital at midnight last
:01:11. > :01:16.night, fireworks crackled, toasts were made in mulled wine and sekt
:01:16. > :01:21.and every radio and television blasted out the Blue Danube waltz
:01:21. > :01:24.and 2012 arrived. The party has moved from the streets into the
:01:24. > :01:30.ornate Golden Hall of the Musikverein where the Philharmonic
:01:30. > :01:37.are on stage for the annual feast of waltzs and galopps. Music by
:01:37. > :01:44.Tchaikovsky and the famous Vienna Boys' Choir added into the mix,
:01:44. > :01:51.conducted by mar is Jansons. As if this 140-year-old concert hall were
:01:51. > :01:56.not rich enough, the room is filled with 130,000 flowers, a gift of the
:01:56. > :02:01.Italian garden city of San Remo. Music by all three Strauss brothers
:02:01. > :02:07.ahead and their father, but we'll start with a piece by Joseph
:02:07. > :02:15.Hellmesberger, he succeeded Mahler, not totally successfully, lighter
:02:15. > :02:25.music is where his strength really lay. Mar is Jansons returns to the
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:02:25. > :06:07.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 222 seconds
:06:07. > :06:13.rostrum and we hear the Danse Mariss Janson's putting the fizz
:06:13. > :06:17.into the New Year, conducting the Vienna Philharmonic in the Ousmane
:06:17. > :06:21.Dabo, bioHan Hellmesberger, long time conductor of the Orchestra and
:06:21. > :06:25.the distinguished operatic composer. The excitement here always cranked
:06:25. > :06:34.up a little for the second part of the New Years day concert. A
:06:34. > :06:44.popular favourite next that's made many appearances over the years, a
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:10:01. > :10:04.The French Polka artist greeting. Now 2012 marks the by season teenry
:10:04. > :10:07.of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde, the Viennese Society
:10:07. > :10:11.of Music Friends, the organisation that built this incredible concert
:10:11. > :10:16.hall. Throughout its life, it's been used for grand balls, as well
:10:17. > :10:26.as concerts, and for the very first ball in 1870, you Han Strauss wrote
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:19:03. > :19:08.Enjoy Life, the message of that waltz by Johann Strauss, written
:19:08. > :19:14.for the celebrations 140 years ago. Accompanied by the ballet dancers
:19:14. > :19:23.performing live amongst the artistic treasures of the Belvedere
:19:23. > :19:26.Pass. Now for something by Johann Senior. Sperl Galopp. Music from
:19:26. > :19:36.particular operas soon found its way into the dance hall in the 19th
:19:36. > :19:36.
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:21:38. > :21:45.Mixture of Rossini and Johann Strauss Senior in the Sperl Galopp.
:21:45. > :21:49.We are going to leave Vienna for a little. Work now by Hans Christian
:21:49. > :21:59.Lumbye. This is to celebrate the work of the first railway in
:21:59. > :22:02.
:22:02. > :22:12.Denmark, the sound of the journey from Copenhagen to killed killed
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:26:10. > :26:15.The Steam Railway Galopp by Hans Christian Lumbye, included in this
:26:15. > :26:25.year's programme as today marks the start of Denmark's presidency of
:26:25. > :26:26.
:26:26. > :26:34.the European Union. Mariss Jansons himself, one of the whistle-blowers,
:26:34. > :26:40.not a railway in Copenhagen, but pictures of the cog railway, the
:26:40. > :26:50.oldest steam locomotive, offering stunning views of the Tir Kneen
:26:50. > :26:50.
:26:50. > :26:55.alps. Tyrolean alps. Johann Strauss's Fireproof Polka
:26:55. > :26:59.commissioned by a leading Viennese industrialist to celebrate a
:26:59. > :27:09.company making its 20,000th fire proof safe. Mariss Jansons will
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:30:15. > :30:18.play once again, the Anville this APPLAUSE. Mariss Janson's joining
:30:18. > :30:22.the percussion section of the Philharmonic playing the Anville
:30:22. > :30:31.with two hammers in a polka celebrating a Viennese product sold
:30:31. > :30:36.around the world. The guaranteed fire proof safe bioreceive Strauss.
:30:36. > :30:41.The Vienna Boys' Choir divided into four different performing choirs.
:30:41. > :30:46.Earlier, another choir sang mass, continuing a tradition unbroken
:30:46. > :30:50.since 1498. It became known as the Vienna Boys' Choir with the ending
:30:50. > :30:54.of the monarchy in 1918 when they gave up their old imperial uniform
:30:54. > :31:01.which used to include a sword, we placed with the blue and white
:31:01. > :31:06.sailor suits they wear today. It's 1924 that they made their first
:31:06. > :31:11.foreign appearances, soon regarded as Austria's ambassadors. You can
:31:11. > :31:21.see highlights of the whole of today's concert on BBC Four tonight
:31:21. > :31:24.at 7 o'clock. Mariss Janson's father conducted the Leningrad
:31:24. > :31:27.Philharmonic and would lead the Orchestra in its New Years
:31:27. > :31:35.programme which sewed the seeds for the younger Janson's interest in
:31:35. > :31:43.the Strauss family. They have their own Russian connection. Johann and
:31:43. > :31:47.Joseph spent time at St Petersburg. We'll hear more from Pavlovsk as
:31:47. > :31:52.the morning progresses. We are going to hear a work by the third
:31:52. > :31:59.sibling, Eduard Strauss, overshadow by his brothers, best remembered as
:32:00. > :32:09.a dance leader than a composer. This is works from Bizet, the
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:37:24. > :37:30.Eduard Strauss's Carmen Quadrille. From music inspired by opera, we
:37:30. > :37:34.move to the ballet. We leave Vienna and head to imperial St Petersburg,
:37:34. > :37:41.there 112 years ago, Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty got its premier at
:37:41. > :37:45.the Maryinsky Theatre. It will be the waltz first, then the Panorama
:37:45. > :37:53.when the prince approaches the palace by moonlight and wakes the
:37:54. > :38:03.sleeping palace. Johann and Josef Strauss had a long residence there.
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:45:17. > :45:21.They wanted to change the mood of The waltz and before it the
:45:21. > :45:26.Panorama from Tchaikovsky's ballet Sleeping Beauty. Performed in St
:45:26. > :45:30.Petersburg, the city well known to Johann and Josef Strauss. A short
:45:30. > :45:36.train ride from the city at paf loss stands the grand summer
:45:36. > :45:39.resident built by Tsar pull I. The great concert hall there drew
:45:39. > :45:44.artists from across Europe, including the Strausss who returned
:45:44. > :45:52.season after season. This is a piece they wrote together while
:45:52. > :46:02.working at Pavlovsk for the Orchestra there. The Pizzicato
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:48:58. > :49:04.APPLAUSE. Played no less than nine times when it was premiered. The
:49:04. > :49:10.Pizzicato Polka. The New Year's day concert often involves works that
:49:10. > :49:16.Johann Strauss wrote for heads of state. A piece he wrote for the
:49:16. > :49:26.Shah of Persia, composed after being awarded the Persian order of
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:51:49. > :51:53.The Persian March by Johann Strauss. He's very proud of that,
:51:53. > :51:59.particularly the snatch of the then Persian national anthem he managed
:51:59. > :52:04.to include in one section. A change of mood next. A polka that Josef
:52:04. > :52:11.Strauss wrote while in Russia, far from home, lonely and desperately
:52:11. > :52:18.missing his beloved wife Carolina. Brennende Liebe, or as it loosely
:52:18. > :52:28.translates, Burning Love, Mariss Janson conducting the Vienna
:52:28. > :52:28.
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:56:54. > :57:04.Philharmonic Orchestra at this 2012 Mariss Janson's been conducting
:57:04. > :57:11.
:57:11. > :57:21.this. The dancers at the Belvedere palace. Inspired by the love he had
:57:21. > :57:22.
:57:22. > :57:29.for his wife. Brennende Liebe. Wagner's Mastersingers of Nuremberg,
:57:29. > :57:34.six hours of wonderful music starts at 2.45 on Radio Three. It's also
:57:34. > :57:39.online and on digital radio. Here in Vienna, one of Josef
:57:39. > :57:41.Strauss's finest waltzs next, work that seems to reflect his
:57:41. > :57:49.complicated personality, someone who was both melancholy but also
:57:49. > :57:59.able to conjure up the fluff and glitter required by Vienna's dances.
:57:59. > :57:59.
:57:59. > :58:09.The Delirium Waltz now with a sense of menace. Mariss Janson's back on
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:06:34. > :06:40.the platform to conduct the Vienna Delirium Waltz bioreceive Strauss,.
:06:40. > :06:45.A horse-drawn street sweeping machine was amongst his creations.
:06:45. > :06:50.That brings us nearly to the end of this 2012 New Year's Day Concert
:06:50. > :06:56.officially anyway. Not that anyone's in any doubt as to two of
:06:56. > :07:06.the encores still to come. The Philharmonic's base drum player,
:07:06. > :07:12.
:07:12. > :07:22.perhaps the loudest of Strauss's pieces, Thunder and Lightning or
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:10:18. > :10:23.Donner und Blizt, polka Schnell's Thunder and Lightning. Music by
:10:23. > :10:30.Johann Strauss I ch. There was a Johann Strauss III, son of Eduard,
:10:30. > :10:34.a composer and a violinist as well. He made the first recordings of
:10:34. > :10:39.Strauss' waltzs in 1903. He died in Berlin in January 1939, the start
:10:39. > :10:45.of the year that saw the very first Vienna Philharmonic New Year's Day
:10:45. > :10:55.concert. As Mariss Janson is presented with flowers, he
:10:55. > :10:58.
:10:58. > :11:02.presented them to the leader of the Philharmonic. There are encores
:11:02. > :11:06.aplenty. As many as 50 million people watching with us today
:11:06. > :11:10.around the world, the concert televised across Europe, America,
:11:11. > :11:16.Japan, China, Australia, 73 countries in total broadcasting it
:11:16. > :11:20.this year from Vienna. Mozambique, Nigeria and Mongolia amongst them
:11:20. > :11:27.also. 2,000 people lucky enough to get their hands on the much-prized
:11:27. > :11:30.tickets to be actually in the Golden Hall, including Julie
:11:30. > :11:35.Andrews, one of the distinguished ges. A man told me yesterday he was
:11:35. > :11:41.offered a pair of tickets for today's concert but politely
:11:41. > :11:46.decline when he was told they would be 3,000 euros each. Mariss Janson
:11:46. > :11:51.is back on the platform. There are certain rituals associated with the
:11:51. > :12:01.encores of the New Year's day concert. The first one is perhaps a
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:14:28. > :14:35.little bit of a surprise. The clock Mariss Janson being handed a giant
:14:35. > :14:45.alarm clock which he rang the bell on at the end of the Tik-Tak Polka.
:14:45. > :15:02.
:15:02. > :15:10.Working with tunes from Danse Die Fledermaus. He must be
:15:10. > :15:19.remembering the orchestras that his father conducted years ago with the
:15:19. > :15:24.Leningrad Philharmonic. All the flowers, 30,000 plus, from Sam Remo.
:15:24. > :15:28.Not that the place needs much help, it's a little overcast in Vienna
:15:28. > :15:38.today so no sun shining, but gold reflected everywhere by the
:15:38. > :15:41.
:15:41. > :15:51.television lights. The ceiling line has paintings of Apollo. Vast
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:15:57. > :16:01.chandeliers here too. He's back on the platform. This place was once
:16:01. > :16:11.described as a place that throws off everything that reminds you of
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:26:58. > :27:04.Blue Danube waltz. The second Viennese national anthem, performed
:27:04. > :27:10.with the traditional false start, the state ballet performing live at
:27:10. > :27:19.the Belvedere palace this morning. Mariss Janson conducting with the
:27:19. > :27:24.traditional false start. They bade us all happy New Year. Blue Danube
:27:24. > :27:34.came out of a bleak time for the imperial empire, composed in the
:27:34. > :27:43.
:27:43. > :27:49.wake of an USA roon defeat in Prussian forces. -- wake of a
:27:49. > :27:58.Austrian defeat in Prussian forces. If that's one fixed part of 2 New
:27:58. > :28:08.Year's Day Concert, the next part is one where the audience are asked
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:31:18. > :31:24.The Radetzky March with full audience participation, conducted
:31:24. > :31:29.this year by Mariss Jansons. That is it for audience and Orchestra,
:31:29. > :31:36.perhaps a light lunch ahead in one of the city's great cafes, maybe a