New Year's Concert 2017 (Neujahrskonzert): Wiener Philharmoniker & Gustavo Dudamel [Blu-ray]

As a brand name, the Vienna New Year’s Concert can trace back its origins to 31 December 1939. In other words, the concert initially took place on the last day of the year. By 1941, however, it was being held on 1 January, when the Vienna Philharmonic established a tradition that continues to flourish to this day.

The list of names of leading conductors who have led the Vienna Philharmonic’s New Year’s Concerts reads like a veritable who’s who of great maestros: including Herbert von Karajan, Lorin Maazel, Claudio Abbado, Carlos Kleiber, Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Muti, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Seiji Ozawa, Mariss Jansons, and Franz Welser-Möst.

It is not least thanks to this illustrious succession of great conductors that the Vienna New Year’s Concert remains unique, ushering in the New Year in a way that has often been imitated but never equaled. Its universal popularity is undoubtedly due to the direct – or deferred – live broadcast from the flower-filled Golden Hall of the Vienna Musikverein. The first broadcast went out on Eurovision in 1959, the first colour relay in 1967. Now the concert is shown in countries throughout almost the entire world.

It continues to be works by members of the Strauss family – Johann Strauss Father and Son as well as Eduard and Josef Strauss – that are central to this media event. Old favourites from their output are heard alongside others that have never been recorded or are only rarely heard; all of them programmed around two fixed points in the concert: the Blue Danube Waltz and the Radetzky March.

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Lehar: Marsch aus "Wiener Frauen"
+Waldteufel: Les Patineurs op. 183
+J. Strauss II: S'gibt nur a Kaiserstadt, s' gibt nur a Wien op. 291; Mephistos Höllenrufe op. 101; So ängstlich sind wir nicht op. 413; Pepita-Polka op. 138; Rotunde-Quadrille op. 360; Die Extravaganten op. 205; Auf zum Tanze op. 436; Tausend und eine Nacht nach Motiven der Operette "Indigo"; Tik-Tak-Polka op. 365; An der schönen blauen Donau op. 314
+Josef Strauss: Winterlust op. 212; Die Nasswalderin op. 267
+Suppe: Pique Dame-Ouvertüre
+Ziehrer: Hereinspaziert aus "Der Schatzmeister" op. 518
+Nicolai: Mondaufgang aus "Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor"
+J. Strauss I: Indianer-Galopp op. 111; Radetzky-Marsch op. 228
+E. Strauss: Mit Vergnügen op. 228