New Year’s Concert 2021, Muti/Vienna (2-CD)
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Discs: 2
Record Label: Sony
Release Date: January 22, 2021
“Never has a program built to its own private apotheosis as surely as this, with lofty yet almost unbearably moving accounts of the Emperor Waltz and the Blue Danube . . . It takes a master conductor to guide an orchestra of the Philharmonic’s pedigree and power to heights of which even it can only occasionally dream, but that is what it is our privilege to experience here.” — Gramophone
Few concerts can claim to generate such tremendous international interest as the New Year's Concert from Vienna. Under the baton of the world's leading conductors, the Vienna Philharmonic rings in the New Year with a gala concert from the magnificent setting of the Golden Hall in Vienna's Musikverein. The event is broadcast to over 90 countries all over the world and watched by more than 50 million viewers.
Riccardo Muti's 2021 appearance with the Vienna Philharmonic marks his sixth New Year's Concert (previous appearances include 1993, 1997, 2000, 2004 and 2018). Together with Zubin Mehta, Muti is one of the most engaged New Year's Concert conductors since Lorin Maazel. His close artistic relationship with the Vienna Philharmonic dates back to 1971 and includes over 500 performances. In 2011, Riccardo Muti was awarded Honorary Membership in the Vienna Philharmonic.
January 2021, Great Hall, Musikverein, Vienna
Contents:
Suppé Fatinitza March
Strauss, Jr. Sound Waves Waltz, Op. 148
Strauss, Jr. Niko-Polka, Op. 228
Strauss Without a Care Fast Polka, Op. 271
Zeller Davy Lamps Waltz
Millöcker Living It Up Galop
Suppé Dichter und Bauer (Poet and Peasant) Overture
Komzák Girls of Baden Waltz, Op. 257
Strauss Margherita Polka, Op. 244
Strauss, Sr. Venetian Galop, Op. 74
Strauss, Jr. Voices of Spring Waltz, Op. 410
Strauss, Jr. In Krapf’s Woods French Polka, Op. 336
Strauss, Jr. New Melodies Quadrille, Op. 254
Strauss, Jr. Emperor Waltz, Op. 437
Strauss, Jr. Tempestuous in Love and Dance Fast Polka, Op. 393
Strauss, Jr. Furioso-Polka, Op. 260
Strauss, Jr. On the Beautiful Blue Danube Waltz, Op. 314
Strauss, Sr. Radetsky March, Op. 228