Sony Classical Releases The 2013 New Year's Concert With The Vienna Philharmonic & Franz Welser-Most

Sony Classical Releases The 2013 New Year's Concert With The Vienna Philharmonic & Franz Welser-Most

CD Available Exclusively at Amazon.com and ArkivMusic, Digital Download Available January 4, 2013

Features 11 New Premieres Including Selections From Verdi and Wagner

NEW YORK, Jan. 4, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Sony Classical is pleased to announce the release of the recording of one of the world's most famous classical music events: the 2013 New Year's Concert with the Vienna Philharmonic. Austrian conductor Franz Welser-Most returned to direct the 2013 concert following the success of his debut in 2011. On January 4, 2013, the live recording will be available exclusively at Arkiv Music and via Amazon.com's CreateSpace's Disc on Demand service and as a download through all major digital service providers. The CD will be released nationwide on January 22. The DVD and Blu-ray will be available on February 5.

The New Year's Concert of the Vienna Philharmonic is firmly established as one of the longest-standing and most prestigious music events worldwide. In its history of more than seven decades, the orchestra has been led by many of the most famous conductors and experienced by millions of people via TV broadcasts in over 70 countries.

As Clemens Hellsberg, the chairman of the Vienna Philharmonic, emphasized, the plaudits that Franz Welser-Most earned for this event in 2011 and his close association with the musical life of Vienna as General Musical Director of the State Opera made him a natural choice for the role in 2013.

For decades the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra has presented from Vienna's Musikverein an entertaining and heartfelt annual program of music from the wide repertoire of the Strauss dynasty and their contemporaries. The proven formula blends well-known classics with premieres of works that have never been performed before at the New Year's Concert and the result is invariably both joyful and moving. This year's repertoire included 11 premieres (more than ever before) and also pays tribute to Wagner and Verdi in advance of their 2013 anniversaries.

For ten years Welser-Most has been musical director of the Cleveland Orchestra, with whom he has built close relationships with Carnegie Hall in New York, the Musikverein in Vienna and the Lucerne Festival and presented eleven world and fourteen United States premieres. In recent seasons his fully-staged productions of the Mozart/Da Ponte operas have re-established The Cleveland Orchestra as an operatic ensemble.

For all his international connections, Welser-Most is an Austrian, who has delighted audiences of the Vienna State Opera with extremely well-received interpretations of the Wagnerian repertoire, among other highlights, and has a special personal connection with the music of the Strauss family: one of his great grandmothers was a daughter of the owner family of Vienna's old-established Cafe Dommayer, where many works by the Strauss dynasty and Josef Lanner were premiered.

The tradition of the Vienna Philharmonic goes back to 1842, when Otto Nicolai conducted a Grand Concert with all members of the imperial "Hof-Operntheater". This event was originally called "Philharmonic Academy" and is regarded as the origin of the orchestra. Since its founding the orchestra is managed by the administrative committee - a democratically elected body - and works artistically, organizationally and financially autonomous. All decisions are reached on a democratic basis during the general meeting of all members.

New Year's Concert 2013 / Vienna Philharmonic and Franz Welser-Most
Track listing
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CD 1
JOSEF STRAUSS 1827-1870
1 Die Soubrette. Polka schnell, op. 109*
The Soubrette. Quick polka
La Soubrette. Polka rapide

JOHANN STRAUSS II 1825-1899
2 Kuss-Walzer op. 400 (aus Der lustige Krieg)*
Kiss Waltz - Valse du baiser

JOSEF STRAUSS
3 Theater-Quadrille op. 213*
Theatre Quadrille - Quadrille du theatre

JOHANN STRAUSS II
4 Aus den Bergen. Walzerop. 292*
From the Mountains. Waltz
Des montagnes. Valse

FRANZ VON SUPPE 1819-1895
5 Leichte Kavallerie - Ouverture
Light Cavalry - Overture
La Cavalerie legere - Ouverture

PART TWO
ZWEITER TEIL - SECONDE PARTIE

JOSEF STRAUSS
6 Spharen-Klange. Walzer op. 235
Music of the Spheres. Waltz
Musique des spheres. Valse

7 Die Spinnerin. Polka francaise op. 192*
The Spinner. French polka - La Fileuse

RICHARD WAGNER 1813-1883
8 Lohengrin - Vorspiel zum Dritten Aufzug*
Prelude to Act III · Prelude du acte III

JOSEPH HELLMESBERGER II 1855-1907
9 Unter vier Augen. Polka Mazur*
Between the Two of Us - Entre quatre yeux

CD 2
JOSEF STRAUSS
1 Hesperusbahnen. Walzer op. 279*
Hesperus' Path Waltz
Chemin des Hesperides. Valse

2 Galoppin. Polka schnell op. 237*
Errand Boy. Quick polka
Galopin. Polka rapide

JOSEPH LANNER 1801-1843
3 Steyrische Tanze op. 165
Styrian Dances - Danses styriaques

JOHANN STRAUSS II
4 Melodien-Quadrille op. 112 (nach Motiven von G. Verdi)*
Melodies Quadrille - Quadrille des melodies

GIUSEPPE VERDI 1813-1901
5 Don Carlo - Prestissimo: Ballettmusik Akt III*
Ballet music from Act III
Musique de ballet du acte III

JOHANN STRAUSS II
6 Wo die Citronen bluh'n! Walzer op. 364
Where the Lemons Blossom. Waltz
Ou fleurissent les citronniers. Valse

JOHANN STRAUSS I 1804-1849
7 Erinnerung an Ernst oder: Der Carneval in Venedig. Fantasie op. 126
Reminiscences of Ernst, or: The Venice Carnival. Fantasia
Souvenirs d'Ernst ou : Le Carnaval de Venise. Fantaisie

JOSEF STRAUSS
8 Plappermaulchen. Polka schnell op. 245
Chatterbox. Quick polka
Moulin a paroles. Polka rapide

9 Neujahrsgruss
New Year's Greeting
Voeux du Nouvel An

JOHANN STRAUSS II
10 An der schonen blauen Donau Walzer op. 314
The Blue Danube. Waltz
Sur le beau Danube bleu. Valse

JOHANN STRAUSS I
11 Radetzky-Marsch op. 228
Radetzky March - Marche de Radetzky


*First performance at a New Year's Concert




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