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Welcome to the Musikverein for the climax | :01:00. | :01:09. | |
of the Vienna Philharmonic New Year's Day Concert. | :01:10. | :01:12. | |
A sunny, crisp and chilly start to the New Year. | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
The place is as rich and glorious in its design and acoustic | :01:17. | :01:25. | |
as a slice of Esterhazy Torte is in its taste and texture. | :01:26. | :01:27. | |
The New Year's Day concert performance by the Vienna | :01:28. | :01:30. | |
of the orchestra's 175th anniversary season, | :01:31. | :01:36. | |
and also the New Year debut of Gustavo Dudamel, | :01:37. | :01:38. | |
the Venezuelan musician, 35 years old, | :01:39. | :01:42. | |
the youngest conductor ever to lead this annual concert. | :01:43. | :01:49. | |
Well, Franz von Suppe was the father of Viennese operetta. | :01:50. | :01:51. | |
Born in Split, now in Croatia, but once part | :01:52. | :01:54. | |
who came to Vienna at 16 to study at the Conservatoire. | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
He created more than 200 stage works, | :02:00. | :02:02. | |
most of them relegated to dusty shelves, | :02:03. | :02:05. | |
but the overture to Pique Dame, The Queen Of Spades, | :02:06. | :02:07. | |
Gustavo Dudamel makes his way onto the platform. | :02:08. | :02:16. | |
The Vienna Philharmonic rises to its feet | :02:17. | :02:17. | |
MUSIC: Overture from the operetta Pique Dame | :02:18. | :10:04. | |
The overture to Franz von Suppe's Pique Dame. | :10:05. | :10:16. | |
Gustavo Dudamel conducting the Vienna Philharmonic. | :10:17. | :10:24. | |
Ballet has long been a popular part of the New Year's Day Concert, | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
and this year we meet dancers from the Vienna State Ballet | :10:30. | :10:31. | |
in the park of the Hermesvilla, built by the Emporer Franz Josef | :10:32. | :10:37. | |
in an attempt to curb the wanderlust of his beloved wife Sisi. | :10:38. | :10:40. | |
The music is a waltz from Der Schatzmeister, | :10:41. | :10:43. | |
MUSIC: Hereinspaziert! by Carl M Ziehrer | :10:44. | :18:27. | |
Gustavo Dudamel conducting the waltz 'Step Right Up'. | :18:28. | :18:36. | |
From Der Schatzmeister by Carl Michael Ziehrer. | :18:37. | :18:42. | |
The tale of an assessor working in a pawnbroker 's office. | :18:43. | :18:46. | |
The Italian Renato Zanella, who was artistic director | :18:47. | :18:48. | |
at the Vienna State Ballet for ten years, is the choreographer | :18:49. | :18:51. | |
Singverein, an amateur chorus long associated with the orchestra. | :18:52. | :19:06. | |
They are going to join the Vienna Philharmonic in | :19:07. | :19:08. | |
the 'Moonrise' from Otto Nicholai's comic opera 'The Merry Wives | :19:09. | :19:11. | |
Last year we marked the 400th anniversary | :19:12. | :19:13. | |
of William Shakespeare's death - this year in Vienna the celebrations | :19:14. | :19:16. | |
are for the 175th anniversary of the founding of the Vienna | :19:17. | :19:19. | |
And Otto Nicholai was one of the three men who, in 1842, | :19:20. | :19:23. | |
decided to found a professional orchestra in this city. | :19:24. | :19:25. | |
Nicolai set out the rules, which survive to this day, | :19:26. | :19:27. | |
the orchestra is self governing, players appoint the conductor, | :19:28. | :19:30. | |
and divide the earnings amongst themselves. | :19:31. | :19:58. | |
The Vienna Singverein and Philharmonic honouring | :19:59. | :24:23. | |
Otto Nicholai, one of the orchestra's founders 175 years ago. | :24:24. | :24:29. | |
Moonrise, from his opera 'The Merry Wives of Windsor'. | :24:30. | :24:35. | |
Just a second to enjoy the flowers decorating the Golden Hall. | :24:36. | :24:48. | |
30,000 blossoms, nurtured for today by the staff | :24:49. | :24:50. | |
of Vienna's Municipal Department No 42 - which runs the city's | :24:51. | :24:53. | |
The director keen to reflect on the rich colours of Venezuela, | :24:54. | :25:01. | |
Deep pink and green flamingo flowers, cymbidia. | :25:02. | :25:16. | |
MUSIC: Pepita-Polka by Johann Strauss II | :25:17. | :28:43. | |
That was The Pepita Polka by Johann Strauss. | :28:44. | :28:48. | |
Strauss honouring a famous Spanish dancer who came to Vienna. | :28:49. | :28:52. | |
Strauss responding to events around him, | :28:53. | :28:55. | |
as he did again in 1873 when the Rotunda opened for the 1873 | :28:56. | :28:59. | |
World Exhibition in Vienna - it had an English architect. | :29:00. | :29:01. | |
Strauss wrote a quadrille in honour of the building. | :29:02. | :29:06. | |
MUSIC: Rotunde-Quadrille by Johann Strauss II | :29:07. | :34:03. | |
written by Strauss for the World's Fair of 1873. | :34:04. | :34:10. | |
Alas, weeks of rainfall, a cholera epidemic, | :34:11. | :34:12. | |
a stock-market crash and global economic crisis | :34:13. | :34:15. | |
The rotunda was finally destroyed by a fire in 1937. | :34:16. | :34:24. | |
A reminder that you can see the New Year's Day Concert | :34:25. | :34:29. | |
Meanwhile, Radio 3 is preparing a bracing start to 2017 | :34:30. | :34:34. | |
celebrating the Second Viennese School, | :34:35. | :34:39. | |
the modernists making their name here at the start | :34:40. | :34:44. | |
of the 20th century - Webern, Berg and Schoenberg. | :34:45. | :34:46. | |
Breaking Free: The Minds That Changed Music | :34:47. | :34:48. | |
starts this afternoon on Radio 3 and runs all week. | :34:49. | :34:52. | |
The famous Lipizzaner horses are one of the symbols of Vienna. | :34:53. | :34:56. | |
We'll see them next as we visit the Spanish Riding School, | :34:57. | :35:00. | |
accompanied by Strauss's waltz The Extravagants. | :35:01. | :35:08. | |
By the way, they are not actually white horses, they are dark, they | :35:09. | :35:15. | |
get progressively lighter grey each year. | :35:16. | :35:18. | |
MUSIC: Die Extravaganten by Johann Strauss II | :35:19. | :42:32. | |
Gustavo Dudamel conducting the Vienna Philharmonic | :42:33. | :42:45. | |
in Johann Strauss Junior's waltz The Extravagants, | :42:46. | :42:48. | |
His father now, and a galop he composed after a group | :42:49. | :42:53. | |
of Indian classical dancers visited Vienna in the late 1830s. | :42:54. | :42:55. | |
Received, it seems, with confused curiosity from the Viennese public. | :42:56. | :43:05. | |
MUSIC: Indianer-Galopp by Johann Strauss | :43:06. | :45:08. | |
The Indian Galop by Johann Strauss Senior. | :45:09. | :45:16. | |
Working our way through the family, his middle son Josef next, | :45:17. | :45:19. | |
a valley in southeastern Lower Austria, | :45:20. | :45:24. | |
predominantly by Protestant timber workers. | :45:25. | :45:33. | |
This is the polka, The Girl From Nasswald. | :45:34. | :45:47. | |
MUSIC: Die Nasswalderin by Johann Strauss | :45:48. | :51:44. | |
A man who can play the whistle and conduct at the same time. | :51:45. | :51:50. | |
The Girl from Nusswald - by Josef Strauss. | :51:51. | :51:51. | |
More dancing next this New Year's morning. | :51:52. | :51:54. | |
You may have detected that the ballet we saw earlier | :51:55. | :51:56. | |
Next though we have dancers actually with us here | :51:57. | :52:01. | |
in the Musikverein - students of the Vienna State | :52:02. | :52:03. | |
They are going to dance to a Polka Johann Strauss | :52:04. | :52:08. | |
wrote for a party at his own Palace in Vienna's 4th District in 1888. | :52:09. | :52:12. | |
A hundred guests, the last of whom didn't leave | :52:13. | :52:14. | |
Maybe you can relate to that this morning. | :52:15. | :52:24. | |
MUSIC: Auf zum Tanze! By Johann Strauss II | :52:25. | :55:35. | |
A comedy role for one of the ushers here at the Musikverein, | :55:36. | :55:43. | |
or maybe he was a costumed dancer. | :55:44. | :55:45. | |
Strauss's first operetta was called | :55:46. | :55:47. | |
The work rather struggled under an incredibly complicated storyline. | :55:48. | :55:51. | |
But the waltz that emerged from the project, | :55:52. | :55:53. | |
'A Thousand and One Nights', is considered one of Strauss's finest. | :55:54. | :56:18. | |
MUSIC: Tausend und eine Nacht by Johann Strauss II | :56:19. | :04:28. | |
Gustavo Dudamel conducting the Vienna Philharmonic. | :04:29. | :04:47. | |
Now, Vienna has museums filled with Old Masters, | :04:48. | :04:56. | |
but it also has museums dedicated to globes, to funerals, | :04:57. | :04:59. | |
all of which make the clock museum seem pretty mainstream. | :05:00. | :05:05. | |
with Johann Strauss' Tik-Tak-Polka from Die Fledermaus. | :05:06. | :05:11. | |
It's located in one of the oldest houses in the centre of the city, | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
and it's home to around 4,000 clocks, | :05:16. | :05:24. | |
MUSIC: Tik-Tak by Johann Strauss II | :05:25. | :07:42. | |
That comes from Strauss's operetta Die Fledermaus, | :07:43. | :07:55. | |
one of the traditions of New Year in Vienna, | :07:56. | :07:58. | |
on last night and again this evening, | :07:59. | :08:00. | |
at the both the Volksoper and the Vienna State Opera, | :08:01. | :08:03. | |
where Otto Schenk's lavish production gets another outing. | :08:04. | :08:05. | |
Other New Year traditions here include the bells | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
of the Stephansdom ringing out the old and in the new, | :08:10. | :08:11. | |
loud fireworks across the city, pigs in porcelain, | :08:12. | :08:20. | |
glass and marzipan to bring good luck, | :08:21. | :08:22. | |
and Dinner For One on the television. | :08:23. | :08:23. | |
Its punch line - "Same procedure as every year" - | :08:24. | :08:26. | |
seems to rather reflect the continuity | :08:27. | :08:27. | |
One member of the Strauss family missing until now. | :08:28. | :08:41. | |
Eduard next, the youngest of the brothers, | :08:42. | :08:44. | |
Who became conductor of the Strauss Orchestra in 1861, | :08:45. | :08:47. | |
touring with them across two continents, | :08:48. | :08:48. | |
and performing in 840 towns and cities. | :08:49. | :08:50. | |
When he disbanded the orchestra in New York in 1901, | :08:51. | :08:52. | |
the last work on the programme was the fast polka With Pleasure. | :08:53. | :08:56. | |
MUSIC: Mit Vergnugen by Eduard Strauss | :08:57. | :10:49. | |
Eduard Strauss's polka With Pleasure. | :10:50. | :11:03. | |
The Vienna Philharmonic players and Maestro Dudamel | :11:04. | :11:06. | |
And British too, designed by Dame Vivienne Westwood | :11:07. | :11:12. | |
and her Austrian husband, Andreas Kronthaler, | :11:13. | :11:15. | |
tailored in the elegant cut of Savile Row bespoke, | :11:16. | :11:18. | |
a modern interpretation of the traditional tailcoat for men, | :11:19. | :11:29. | |
get a short jacket inspired by a frock coat. | :11:30. | :11:37. | |
The outfits making their first appearance on stage today. | :11:38. | :11:39. | |
175 years of the Vienna Philharmonic, | :11:40. | :11:41. | |
First heard in February 1867 at a ball in Leopoldstadt district, | :11:42. | :11:45. | |
then performed with words sung by choir. | :11:46. | :11:48. | |
The Austrian Mint has produced silver five euro coin to celebrate. | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
Rather appropriate, as Strauss was paid one gold ducat | :11:54. | :11:56. | |
A work that over the years has become an unofficial | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
key to the New Year and this New Year's Day Concert. | :12:01. | :12:11. | |
Conducted by Gustavo Dudamel, the director of the LA Philharmonic and | :12:12. | :12:20. | |
the Simon Bolivar Orchestra of Venezuela. | :12:21. | :12:28. | |
MUSIC: An der schonen blauen Donau by Johann Strauss II | :12:29. | :12:34. | |
Die Wiener Philharmoniker und ich wunschen Ihnen... | :12:35. | :12:51. | |
MUSIC: An der schonen blauen Donau by Johann Strauss II | :12:52. | :23:02. | |
The Blue Danube, by Johann Strauss Junior, | :23:03. | :23:07. | |
This Orchestra, 175 years old this year. | :23:08. | :23:26. | |
Gustavo Dudamel, at 35, the youngest conductor ever to lead | :23:27. | :23:28. | |
There is one New Year tradition left. | :23:29. | :23:41. | |
It was an Austrian Army Band who premiered Strauss Senior's | :23:42. | :23:44. | |
Then it was the officers who clapped and stamped their heels | :23:45. | :23:47. | |
Now the entire audience of the Musikverein beats something | :23:48. | :23:51. | |
MUSIC: Radetzky-Marsch by Johann Strauss | :23:52. | :27:09. | |
Great direction of the audience here from Gustavo Dudamel. | :27:10. | :27:14. | |
The Radetsky March - by Johann Strauss Junior. | :27:15. | :27:17. | |
And so 2017 is upon us, no stopping the clock or the calendar. | :27:18. | :27:21. | |
As Walter Scott once said "Each age has deemed the new-born year | :27:22. | :27:24. | |
Cheer may be in shorter supply than usual this New Year. But I hope the | :27:25. | :27:39. | |
rich tradition of this concept has brought some joy. Julie Andrews | :27:40. | :27:44. | |
presents this concert on American television. The audience may look | :27:45. | :27:49. | |
well behaved but as soon as we go off air there will be something of a | :27:50. | :27:52. | |
scrambled to grab the flowers. With many thanks to our colleagues | :27:53. | :27:58. | |
at ORF and Eurovision - this is Petroc Trelawny bidding | :27:59. | :28:00. | |
you farewell from Vienna and wishing Oh, my... | :28:01. | :28:15. | |
Dai! Your gays have arrived. | :28:16. | :28:19. |