Description
New Year's Concert 2002 – Neujahrskonzert 2002 / Seiji Ozawa, Wiener Philharmoniker / Philips Audio CD 2002 / 4689992
UPC 028946899922
Product Details:
Label: Philips – 468 999-2
Format: CD, Album
Country: Germany
Released: 07 Jan 2002
Genre: Classical
Style: Romantic
Description:
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 such as "Zivio!," "Elisen-Polka Français," and Joseph Hellmesberger II's delightful "Danse Diabolique." Among the better-known items, "Künsterleben" moves with refreshing understatement and subtle lilt. Perhaps Philips's engineering doesn't pack the punch of Teldec's extraordinary 2001 edition with Harnoncourt, but at least the audience's rhythmic clapping during the inevitable "Radetsky-Marsch" encore doesn't overpower the musicians. Great sound, great playing, charming music: how can you go wrong? --Jed Distler
Tracklist:
| 1 | Die Fledermaus (Ouvertüre) | |
| 2 | Künstlerleben (Walzer) | |
| 3 | Živio! (Marsch) | |
| 4 | Die Schwätzerin (Polka Mazur) | |
| 5 | Vorwärts! (Polka Schnell) | |
| 6 | Aquarellen (Walzer) | |
| 7 | Die Libelle (Polka Mazur) | |
| 8 | Plappermäulchen! (Polka Schnell) | |
| 9 | Danse Diabolique
Composed By – Joseph Hellmesberger II |
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| 10 | Elisen-Polka Française | |
| 11 | Wiener Blut (Walzer) | |
| 12 | Tik-Tok (Polka Schnell) | |
| 13 | Die Neujahrsansprache | |
| 14 |
An Der Schönen, Blauen Donau (Walzer) | |
| 15 | Radetzky-Marsch
Composed By – Johann Strauss I |
More Details:
- Composed By – Johann Strauss II (tracks: 1 to 3, 10 to 12, 14), Josef Strauss (tracks: 4 to 8)
- Design [Cover] – Smith & Gilmour
- Executive Producer – Clive Bennett
- Leader [Orchestra] – Seiji Ozawa
- Orchestra – Wiener Philharmoniker
- Photography [Cover Photos] – Michael Lutch, Robert Zival, Theresia Linke
