| View Larger Image | New Year's Concert 2005 | Audio CDJoseph [2] Hellmesberger (Composer), Spoken Word (Composer), Eduard Strauss (Composer), Johann II Strauss (Composer), Johann II and Josef Strauss (Composer), Josef Strauss (Composer), Franz von Suppe (Composer), Lorin Maazel (Composer), Lorin Maazel (Composer), Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra (Composer)
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| | Binding: | Audio CD | | Studio: | Deutsche Grammophon | | Release Date: | January 25, 2005 | | Sales Rank: | 179,031th |
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TRACK LISTING |
Disc: 1
- Track 1: Indigo-Marsch, for orcestra, Op. 349
- Track 2: Haute-volée-Polka (High Society Polka), for orchestra, Op. 155 (RV 155)
- Track 3: Lustschwarmer, Op. 91
- Track 4: Winterlust, polka schnell, Op. 121
- Track 5: Die Emancipierte (Emancipated Woman), polka mazurka for orchestra, Op. 282
- Track 6: Tausend und eine Nacht (A Thousand and One Nights), waltz for orchestra, Op. 346 (RV 346)
- Track 7: Die Bajadere, polka schnell for orchestra, Op. 351 (RV 351)
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Disc: 2
- Track 1: Die schöne Galathee (The Beautiful Galatea), overture to the operetta
- Track 2: Ansprache Dr. Clemens Hellsberg, Vorstand der Wiener Philharmoniker (Speech Dr. Clemens Hellsber)
- Track 3: Klipp-Klapp (Click-Clack), galop for orchestra, Op. 466 (RV 466)
- Track 4: Nordseebilder (North Sea Pictures), waltz for orchestra, Op. 390 (RV 390)
- Track 5: Bauern, polka française for orchestra, Op. 276 (RV 276)
- Track 6: Fata Morgana, polka-mazurka for orchestra, Op. 330 (RV 330)
- Track 7: Vergnügungszug (Excursion Train), polka schnell for orchestra, Op. 281 (RV 281)
- Track 8: Auf Wiener Art, polka française (In the Viennese Manner)
- Track 9: Russische Marsche-Fantasie, for orchestra, Op. 353 (RV 353)
- Track 10: Ein Herz, ein Sinn, polka-mazurka for orchestra, Op. 323 (RV 323)
- Track 11: Pizzicato Polka for orchestra, Op. 234
- Track 12: Geschichten aus dem Wienerwald (Tales from the Vienna Woods), waltz for orchestra, Op. 325 (RV 325)
- Track 13: Electrisch (Polka schnell)
- Track 14: Auf der Jagd (Off to the Hunt), schnellpolka for orchestra, Op. 373 (RV 373)
- Track 15: New Year's Address (Vienna Philharmonic Concert 2005)
- Track 16: An der schönen, blauen Donau (On the Beautiful, Blue Danube), waltz for orchestra (with chorus ad lib), Op. 314 (RV 314)
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CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 3 reviews)
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Wonderful ensemble, perfect style, but a bit lacking in joy by Santa Fe listener  4 Stars
January 01, 2008
Lorin Maazel has turned into a favorite conductor with the Vienna Phil., if not of mine (being self-governed, the orchestra members vote on who they want to conduct them). Whateer he may lack in charm, Maazel is a superb technician and a musician's musician. He gets the best ensemble that I've heard on New Year's since Carlos Kleiber, and he is more attuned to Viennese style than Seigji Ozawa, who preceded him, or Mariss Jansons, who succeeded him in 2006. Another plus is that we get to hear many rarities on the pgrogram.
Everything would seem to add up to five stars, but Strauss must be played with infectious buoyancy and joy. As with Harnoncourt, I don't detect high spirits here, and so the abudance of other musical values doesn't quite add up to something truly exceptional.
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Yet Another Excellent New Year's Day VPO Concert by John Kwok (New York, NY USA)  5 Stars
April 27, 2005
This year's concert was devoted almost exclusively to music by Johann Strauss II. Without question, it is among the Vienna Philharmonic's best New Year's Concerts, led by a long-time collaborator at the podium, American conductor Lorin Maazel, who has conducted the orchestra since the early 1960s. The orchestra responded enthusiastically to him, following his tempi even when he wasn't conducting (In two works he plays violin solos, most notably the "Tales from the Vienna Woods" waltz.). On a somber note, the traditional final piece of the concert, Johann Strauss' Radetzky March was not played, a silent tribute offered to the victims of the December 26th earthquake and tsunami in the Indian Ocean (However, the other traditional encore, the "Blue Danube" waltz was played.). Fans of both the Vienna Philharmonic and Lorin Maazel will be interested in acquiring this CD.
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Another Beautiful Concert by James E. Kimmel (Ohio) 5 Stars
February 24, 2005
Tremendous in the Dobly 5.1 surround sound. Great ballet to the Blue Danube waltz. Maazel does some violin solos on the Tales from the Vienna Woods
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SIMILAR PRODUCTS |
| 2006 Neujahrskonzert (New Year's Concert)
Joseph Lanner (Composer), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Composer), Spoken Word (Composer), Eduard Strauss (Composer), Johann I Strauss (Composer), Johann II Strauss (Composer), Josef Strauss (Composer), Mariss Jansons (Composer), Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra (Composer)
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| 2007 New Year's Concert
Johann Strauss II (Composer), Johann Strauss I (Composer), Eduard Strauss (Composer), Josef Strauss (Composer), Jr. Joseph Hellmesberger (Composer), Zubin Mehta (Composer), Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra (Composer)
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| New Year's Concert 2004
Joseph Lanner (Composer), Spoken Word (Composer), Eduard Strauss (Composer), Johann I Strauss (Composer), Johann II Strauss (Composer), Josef Strauss (Composer), Riccardo Muti (Composer), Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra (Composer)
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| New Year's Concert (2002)
by Johann Strauss II, Josef Strauss, Joseph Hellmesberger II, Seiji Ozawa, Wiener Philharmoniker
The Vienna Philharmonic New Year's concert remains as musically uplifting and orchestrally ravishing a tradition in 2002 as it's been for many a recent year. The Vienna Philharmonic, of course, can play Strauss waltzes, marches, and polkas in their sleep. Yet under Seiji Ozawa's firm baton in a mink glove, the players sound wide awake at every turn: effortlessly negotiating the Fledermaus Overture's tricky tempo transitions, bringing just the right combination of gravity and pizzazz to rarities...
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| New Year's Concert 2001
Joseph Lanner (Composer), Johann I Strauss (Composer), Johann II Strauss (Composer), Josef Strauss (Composer), Nikolaus Harnoncourt (Composer)
Nikolaus Harnoncourt is known for his provocative interpretations of the heavy end of the repertoire, but he really gets into the spirit of these enchanting waltzes, polkas, and marches. Of course, he's got the Vienna Philharmonic here and no orchestra can match them in this music; their delicious winds and silky strings are irresistible. Under Harnoncourt, the music really takes wing--the band gets down and dirty at the beginning of the Night in Venice overture, revels in the twittering bird...
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