:00:51. > :00:54.This is BBC Radio 4 Rick, we stand by for viewers on BBC Two to join
:00:55. > :00:58.us. Welcome to Vienna and the Golden
:00:59. > :01:01.Hall of the Musikverein. I'm Petroc Trelawny and you join
:01:02. > :01:04.us with the players of the Vienna Philharmonic on stage
:01:05. > :01:06.and ready for the climax of their annual New Year's Day
:01:07. > :01:09.concert, this year led by the Latvian conductor
:01:10. > :01:14.Mariss Jansons. The street cleaners have been hard
:01:15. > :01:30.at work getting rid of the evidence, the burnt-out fireworks and empty
:01:31. > :01:33.bottles, left over from last night's celebrations, when tens of thousands
:01:34. > :01:35.packed into the Graben to see The bells of Stephansdom providing
:01:36. > :01:39.a confident greeting to 2016, with the Blue Danube playing out
:01:40. > :01:41.on Austrian television - as it will in an hour
:01:42. > :01:44.or so here in the Musikverein. Before that, the Vienna Boys Choir
:01:45. > :01:47.will make an appearance on stage and the traditional appearance
:01:48. > :01:49.of dancers from the Vienna State Mariss Jansons makes his way
:01:50. > :02:04.to the centre of the stage here at the Musikverein,
:02:05. > :02:06.to conduct the overture The Overture to Strauss'
:02:07. > :10:27.operetta, A Night in Venice, which is performed at
:10:28. > :10:33.the Volksoper here in March. The flowers surrounding the stage
:10:34. > :10:36.provided by Vienna's muncipal gardeners and arranged overnight
:10:37. > :10:44.by an army of florists. And Kim Moon one of the
:10:45. > :10:54.distinguished guests this year. Not sure if any of the flowers came
:10:55. > :10:58.from the Prater Park but that's The dancers from the LA, that was by
:10:59. > :13:12.Eduard Strauss, Beyond All Bounds. One of the most beautiful
:13:13. > :13:15.waltzes of all time next - Music of the Spheres,
:13:16. > :13:17.by Josef Strauss, written in 1868, when Josef was director
:13:18. > :13:21.of the Medical Association Ball. One of the great Viennese
:13:22. > :23:39.musical tone poems. APPLAUSE
:23:40. > :23:48.Marries Jansons conducting the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra this
:23:49. > :23:55.New Year's Day in Music of the Spheres.
:23:56. > :23:58.Jansons born in Riga, Latvia, son of the celebrated conductor
:23:59. > :24:02.His career started when he was appointed assistant to the legendary
:24:03. > :24:03.Evgeny Mravinsky at the Leningrad Philharmonic in 1971.
:24:04. > :24:06.The Oslo and London Philharmonic Orchestras, the Pittsburgh Symphony
:24:07. > :24:08.and Royal Concertgebouw in Amsterdam amongst the orchestras he has been
:24:09. > :24:12.He is now music director of the Bavarian Radio Symphony
:24:13. > :24:17.It was Jansons' particular wish to have the Vienna Boys Choir -one
:24:18. > :24:22.It was Jansons' particular wish to have the Vienna Boys Choir.
:24:23. > :24:25.The text seems very appropriate for New Year's Day.
:24:26. > :24:27."He who sings merrily and dances gleefully is armed
:24:28. > :24:30."Cheerfulness stirs the sluggish blood to new passion.
:24:31. > :24:40."What makes him glad makes everything good."
:24:41. > :24:52.Schubert and Haydn both former members of the Vienna Boys Choir and
:24:53. > :24:54.Mariss Jansons returns to conduct the Orchestra with the Vienna Boys
:24:55. > :28:32.Choir. And the choir stay on the stage now
:28:33. > :28:36.to perform a work by Josef Strauss, that makes good use of student songs
:28:37. > :28:39.popular in Vienna in the second half Off On Holiday - Mariss Jansons
:28:40. > :31:37.conducting the Vienna Philharmonic By the way, they may be
:31:38. > :31:47.the Vienna Boys Choir, but since 1997, girls have also been
:31:48. > :31:50.accepted by the Vienna Boys Choir. The children sing together
:31:51. > :31:53.but the girls have their own choir too, under the patronage
:31:54. > :32:08.of the famous Slovak soprano Six film milk -- female players in
:32:09. > :32:27.the Philharmonic this year, slightly down on last year.
:32:28. > :32:30.Ritter Pazman - Knight Pazman - was the result but it was not
:32:31. > :32:33.a success, running for just nine performances here in 1892.
:32:34. > :32:34.So, bitterly disappointed, he returned to operetta.
:32:35. > :32:36.Within a few months he wrote Furstin Ninetta, which
:32:37. > :32:40.Premiered at the Theater an der Wien, which, for the first time,
:32:41. > :32:42.was lit with electric light, and the Emperor
:32:43. > :32:46.It was a huge success, even if the work is pretty
:32:47. > :32:50.It's a bizarre story, it's all set in at a seaside hotel
:32:51. > :32:53.in Sorento, Italy, where the guests include a Russian born princess,
:32:54. > :32:56.She enjoys dressing as a man and possesses a whole
:32:57. > :36:13.Thankfully it all ends happily enough.
:36:14. > :36:19.The section that came between Acts 2 and 3.
:36:20. > :36:24.That was premiered on the night where the theatre was first lit by
:36:25. > :36:26.electric light. Emile Waldteufel was always
:36:27. > :36:28.delighted when he was described This is his reworking of his fellow
:36:29. > :36:32.Frenchman Emmanuel Chabrier's A little fanning away
:36:33. > :42:26.of the Spanish heat. The temperature is pretty high
:42:27. > :42:35.inside here. If the Strausses were one famous
:42:36. > :42:37.Viennese musical dynasty, We are going to hear a Ball Scene,
:42:38. > :42:41.for Salon Orchestra by Joseph Hellmesberger Senior,
:42:42. > :42:44.whose father had been one of the most popular Viennese
:42:45. > :42:46.violinists of his time, and whose son became
:42:47. > :48:16.conductor of this orchestra. The leader of the Orchestra there
:48:17. > :48:30.and then the concert master is there. The Orchestra tell me how
:48:31. > :48:36.many they enjoy working with January son, how clear he is giving a beat
:48:37. > :48:44.and how passionately committed he is to Strauss.
:48:45. > :48:46.The man who started the dynasty next, Strauss the father,
:48:47. > :48:49.who had launched his orchestra in 1825, after splitting
:48:50. > :50:36.He wrote many Galops. This includes the musical Sigh.
:50:37. > :51:01.The Sigh Galop by Johann Strauss Senior, who had much to worry
:51:02. > :51:06.His mother died when he was seven, his father drowned when he was 12.
:51:07. > :51:08.His guardian made him apprentice a bookbinder here in Vienna,
:51:09. > :51:11.but he found enough time to study viola and violin,
:51:12. > :51:13.and in his late teens joined a string quartet,
:51:14. > :51:24.which expanded into a string orchestra.
:51:25. > :51:33.His son, Josef Strauss next. This is a very good example, a polka called
:51:34. > :57:13.The Dragonfly. APPLAUSE
:57:14. > :57:15.The Dragon Fly by Juan Strauss. -- Johann.
:57:16. > :57:17.Next, TV viewers will meet again with the dancers
:57:18. > :57:20.of the Vienna State Ballet, this time at the World Heritage Site
:57:21. > :57:43.This time they are seeking love in the grounds of the Palace.
:57:44. > :09:11.Jiri Bubenicek has created the Emperor waltz.
:09:12. > :09:25.The Emperor Waltz. Mariss Jansons conducting the Vienna Philharmonic.
:09:26. > :09:32.The costumes by the English designer Emma Ryatt.
:09:33. > :09:33.Galloping and gunshots in our next work.
:09:34. > :09:36.A hunt is in progress, the horns signalling the sighting
:09:37. > :09:40.This is a polka that is taken from another Strauss operetta,
:09:41. > :09:43.Cagliostro in Wien, a show about an adventurer and occultist,
:09:44. > :09:48.Count Alessandro di Cagliostro, who was a conman and master
:09:49. > :12:14.A polka from Johann Strauss's operetta Cagliostro in Wien,
:12:15. > :12:16.another of those rather forgotten Strauss works.
:12:17. > :12:19.Opened at Theatre an der Wien in 1875, hugely popular thanks
:12:20. > :12:24.to its star, Alexander Girardi, great Austrian actor and tenor.
:12:25. > :12:27.A monument to him stands near to here in the Karlsplatz
:12:28. > :12:34.Korngold made a new version in the 1920s, and another
:12:35. > :12:40.new version was premiered in Danzig, Gdansk in Poland, in 1941.
:12:41. > :12:43.In fact, just after the Vienna Philharmonic New Year's Day
:12:44. > :12:47.The tradition began on New Year's Eve 1939,
:12:48. > :12:52.and then moved to New Year's Day in 1941.
:12:53. > :12:56.What is now an event of such a joy and celebration was an invention
:12:57. > :12:59.of the Nazis, who saw the sweet waltzes of Strauss
:13:00. > :13:02.as being the perfect way of distracting the populace
:13:03. > :13:05.from the increasingly-bleak state of the War.
:13:06. > :13:08.Right from the beginning it was to reach a much wider
:13:09. > :13:11.audience than simply those in the halls, with a live broadcast
:13:12. > :13:15.on radio frequencies across the Third Reich.
:13:16. > :13:18.A sober fact to remember in these days when this is a truly global
:13:19. > :13:23.institution, broadcast to an audience of over 50 million
:13:24. > :13:43.Then there are those lucky enough to be here. Like Ban Ki-Moon, the UN
:13:44. > :13:48.Secretary General, and the Austrian president, his host today. I wonder
:13:49. > :13:57.if they will have had to pay for their tickets, but they can cost up
:13:58. > :13:58.to 1000 euros. There is a completed ballot that gives the chance to get
:13:59. > :14:06.here. His first operetta for the Theater
:14:07. > :14:09.an der Wien was called It was very much in the French style
:14:10. > :14:12.popularised by Offenbach. His operettas often featured
:14:13. > :14:15.a lively can-can, which is perhaps why Strauss decided he should
:14:16. > :14:17.include a high-speed polka At The Double, fast polka
:14:18. > :16:48.by Johann Strauss, one of the concert pieces he arranged
:16:49. > :16:50.from the music to his first operetta, Indigo And
:16:51. > :16:52.The Forty Thieves. Based on the One Thousand
:16:53. > :17:04.And One Nights stories, So we are approaching the final
:17:05. > :17:14.stage of this 2016 Vienna Philharmonic New Year's Day concert.
:17:15. > :17:17.It is not billed in the programme but I'm not sure anyone will be too
:17:18. > :17:20.surprised with what is to come. It was in 1873 that the relationship
:17:21. > :17:22.between the Vienna Philharmonic and the Strauss family began,
:17:23. > :17:25.when Strauss conducted his waltz Weiner Blut at that year's
:17:26. > :17:27.Vienna Opera Ball, held Later that year he conducted them
:17:28. > :17:30.in his Blue Danube Waltz. But there remained a certain
:17:31. > :17:33.sniffiness from the orchestra This was after all the ensemble
:17:34. > :17:36.of Brahms, Mahler, Richard Strauss. It wasn't until Clemens Krauss began
:17:37. > :17:39.conducting an annual Strauss concert at the Salzburg Festival in 1929
:17:40. > :17:50.that the Strauss firmly That relationship between Krauss and
:17:51. > :18:01.the Strauss family continued until his death in 1954.
:18:02. > :28:57.APPLAUSE Laughter
:28:58. > :29:05.Mariss Jansons, 72-year-old Latvian conductor.
:29:06. > :29:13.Conducting the Vienna Philharmonic in the Blue Danube waltz. Well,
:29:14. > :29:25.there is just one more element of this concert that remains.
:29:26. > :29:31.This is dedicated to a great military man, responsible for two
:29:32. > :29:38.great victories at the end of his career as a soldier. He had 70 years
:29:39. > :29:45.military service under his belt. You can give marks out of ten for the
:29:46. > :29:50.clapping for the audience here. The tradition of clapping and staffing
:29:51. > :29:56.feet goes back to 1948 by an Australian army band. That's when
:29:57. > :33:17.the audience started clapping along. The Radetsky March, bringing
:33:18. > :33:21.the 2016 Vienna Philharmonic Mariss Jansons bows to the audience
:33:22. > :33:30.here in the sparkling golden hall, as the great tradition starts
:33:31. > :33:33.the New Year in spectacular style. The New Year's Day concert
:33:34. > :33:35.performance by the Vienna It's time for us to bid you farewell
:33:36. > :33:41.from Vienna and wish you a safe,