Sunday, January 18, 2015

Radetzky Through the New Years

The Vienna Philharmonic New Year's Concert traditionally concludes with Johann Strauss' Radetzky March. I took it upon myself to painstakingly cull youtube to present this list because, beyond enjoying the tune, you can learn a lot about the conductors by studying how they conduct this piece. Note, how Karajan conducts the audience -- and how the audience follows! Note the sound Kleiber gets and his charismatic conducting.

1987 - Herbert von Karajan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHFf7NIwOHQ&feature=related

1989 - Carlos Kleiber
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYB4c163dJA

1991 - Claudio Abbado
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-G5HwYQRkE

1992 - Carlos Kleiber
http://youtu.be/NLtpszY6730

1993 - Riccardo Muti
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gB0ayPXf5Y0

1996 - Lorin Maazel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5-yCg0OxYs

2001 - Nikolaus Harnoncourt
http://youtu.be/m_clP7RmLs4

2002 - Seiji Ozawa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfB3sUlS0Ck

2003 - Nikolaus Harnoncourt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wK53FUaMAbs

2004 - Riccardo Muti
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_OoqkS_obY

2007 - Zubin Mehta
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSKKLROWgOI

2008 - Georges Prêtre
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46k7Gp5L0v4

2009 - Daniel Barenboim
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ll9bZXgj3A

2010 - Georges Prêtre
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeoUARw1R78

2011 - Franz Welser-Möst
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VDzca0ycCg&feature=related

2012 - Mariss Jansons
http://youtu.be/XzjH4K7coTo

2013 - Welser-Möst
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poJYW6tKRkI

2014 - Daniel Barenboim
http://youtu.be/2ORHVroiWHk

2015 - Zubin Mehta
http://youtu.be/TpSopvk7Tks

If you'd like to attend don't worry because tickets are sold on a lottery system and you might get lucky -- you'll have to commit by the second week of January though! For those who wanted to know more about the concerts...there's always wikipedia:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vienna_New_Year's_Concert