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New Year's Concert 2008 | 
 enlarge | Creators: Georges Pretre, Wiener Philharmoniker
Label: Decca Records
Category: Music
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Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 161379
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.7 x 0.2
MPN: 001061102
UPC: 028947800347
EAN: 0028947800347
ASIN: B000XH2BJI
Release Date: February 12, 2008
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| Tracks:
| • | Johann Strauss II Napoleon March, op. 156 | | • | Josef Strauss "Village Swallows from Austria" Waltz, op. 164 | | • | Josef Strauss Laxenburg Polka | | • | Johann Strauss I Paris Waltzes | | • | Johann Strauss I Versailles Gallop | | • | Johann Strauss II Orpheus-Quadrille, op. 236 | | • | Joseph Hellmesberger jr. Kleiner Anzeiger Gallop, op. 4 | | • | Johann Strauss II Overture from "Indigo and the Forty Thieves" | | • | Johann Strauss II "Enjoy Life" Waltz, op. 340 | | • | Johann Strauss II Bluette--French Polka, op. 271 | | • | Johann Strauss II Chit-Chat Polka, op. 214 | | • | Joseph Lanner Hofball-Taenze Waltz, op. 161 | | • | Josef Strauss The Dragonfly Polka, op. 204 | | • | Johann Strauss II Russian March, op. 426 | | • | Johann Strauss II The Parisian--French Polka, op. 238 | | • | Johann Strauss I Chinese Gallop, op. 20 | | • | Johann Strauss II The Emperor Waltz, op. 437 | | • | Johann Strauss II The Bayadere Polka, op. 351 | | • | Josef Strauss Sport Polka, op. 170 | | • | Johann Strauss II "On the Beautiful Blue Danube" op. 314 | | • | Johann Strauss I Radetzky March, op. 228 |
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Album Description
The New Year's Concert in Vienna has been a glorious tradition for over six decades. A best-selling classical event, the concert has a unique global appeal. It has been broadcast on TV and radio to over 50 countries, and is viewed by tens of millions of people all over the world. The 2008 New Year's Day Concert will be conducted by the eminent conductor Georges Pretre, the first French conductor to receive this honor. The concert program for January 1, 2008 will be the customary collection of Strauss delights, but this time with a French theme. Receiving its first performance at a New Year's Concert, Napoleon March op. 156 by Johann Strauss II will open the program. The traditional encores of Blue Danube Waltz and Radetzky March will be joined by the Sport Polka as a nod to the European Football Championship to be held in Vienna in 2008. The Summer Olympics in Beijing is also being saluted by the orchestra with an early work of the elder Johann Strauss, his exotically colored Chinese Gallop.
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| Customer Reviews:
Never, ever... dissappointed with this series :-) May 27, 2008
R. Leelawong (MA, USA)
I started to listen to classical music by the New Year Concert of the year 2003... after that I tried to collect all the concert in this series. Even though they play almost the same songs year by year... but they sound to me very different... love them all !
Yet another splendid New Year's Concert from the Vienna Philharmonic April 27, 2008
John Kwok (New York, NY USA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Distinguished French operatic conductor Georges Pretre was definitely an odd choice to lead this year's concert at Vienna's venerable Musikverein, but he demonstrates a warm affinity for the Viennese waltz tradition in this rather well-played concert. With the possible exception of the Blue Danube Waltz, I thought Pretre was absolutely superb in conducting the Wiener Philharmoniker, though perhaps it was more the Wiener Philharmoniker, not Pretre himself, who understood quite well the rich musical textures of J. Strauss II's scores. Nonetheless, this has to rank among the better New Year's Concerts in recent memory, even though I regard as more memorable both of Harnoncourt's concerts conducted earlier in this decade, as well as Mehta's exceptional 2007 concert. And yet, as I have noted before, Pretre demonstrates that he is a fine interpreter of the Strauss family's music, which is represented here by works composed not only by Johann Strauss II, but also several pieces - including the traditional encore "Radetzky March" - by his father Johann Strauss I and by his brother Josef Strauss. Following in the wake of Warner Classics (Teldec) and Deutsche Grammophon, Decca has wisely opted to present the entire concert in this two CD package.
Another Nice Presentation April 22, 2008
Ken Bailey (Ypsilanti, MI United States)
A friend of mine turned me on to the New Year's Concerts a few years ago. I started to get these starting with the 2002 Hybrid SACD version. I usually don't catch the live broadcast when it's on PBS, but the few times I have, it has been amazing especially when they show the scenes of Vienna.
This year they had a French conducter and that was evident as one of the songs had the Can Can in it. The rest of the songs were very well selected and sounded very good. I love the tradition of ending every concert with the Blue Danube and the Radetsky March (except for one year when the world was too unpleasant).
Vienna goes Parisian in a beautifully recorded concert February 13, 2008
Santa Fe listener
4 out of 8 found this review helpful
Inviting a veeteran French conductor to lead the most Austrian of celebrations seems odd, but Georges Pretre does very well. His style, once hectic, has become warm and nostalgic. He picked some French-themed rarities from Johann Strauss's immense output, among them a march dedicated to Napoleon, a waltz and polka for Paris, even the familiar can-can theme from Orpheus in the Underworld lifted from his rival Offenbach. The Vienna Phil. plays with charm and lightness this year, a welcome contrast to the somewhat plodding affair that Mariss Jansons led in 2006; Mehta led a glowing concert last year.
I particularly welcomed the selections from Indigo and the Forty Thieves, a failed Strauss operetta gifted with a wonderful overtrue. As has become customary, Decca offers two CDs for the price of one, recorded in excellent sound. For traditionalists Pretre may seem a tad underpowered in the Emperor and Blue Danube waltzes, but there's so much unfamiliar music here that's totally charming, it hardly matters. In the Sixties and Seventies the New Year's concerts were more echt Viennese, yet I doubt the orchestra has ever sounded as fine as it does today. Who can argue with perfection?
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