New Year's Concert by the Vienna Philharmonic 2002

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The New Year's Concert of the Vienna Philharmonic in 2002 was the 62nd New Year's Concert of the Vienna Philharmonic and took place on January 1, 2002 in the great hall of the Vienna Music Association. It was conducted by Seiji Ozawa .

particularities

Seiji Ozawa (here 1963) was the first conductor in 2002 at the New Year's Concert of the Vienna Philharmonic

Seiji Ozawa conducted the concert without a baton, which gave his gestures a great immediacy and directness. In October 2002, Seiji Ozawa became music director of the Vienna State Opera . He has often been a guest conductor there before and has led the Vienna Philharmonic on tours and at the Salzburg Festival . In the same year he also received the Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art, First Class

program

  • Johann Strauss (son) : Zivio! March , op.456
  • Johann Strauss (son): Carnevals ambassador. Waltz , op.270
  • Josef Strauss : The babbler. Polka Mazur , op.144
  • Johann Strauss (son): artist life. Waltz , op.316
  • Johann Strauss (father) : Popular Annen-Polka , op.137
  • Josef Strauss: Forward! Schnell-Polka , op.127
  • Johann Strauss (son): Overture to the operetta "Die Fledermaus"
  • Josef Strauss: arm in arm. Polka Mazur , op.215
  • Josef Strauss: watercolors. Waltz , op.258
  • Josef Strauss: The dragonfly. Polka mazur , op.204
  • Josef Strauss: Chatterbox. Polka fast , op.245
  • Johann Strauss (son): Perpetuum mobile. Musical joke , op.257
  • Josef Hellmesberger junior : Danse diabolique
  • Johann Strauss (son): Elisen-Polka française . op. 151
  • Johann Strauss (son): Viennese blood. Waltz , op.354
  • Johann Strauss (son): Tik-Tak. Polka fast , op.365
  • Josef Strauss: In flight. Polka fast , op.230
  • Johann Strauss (son): On the beautiful blue Danube , waltz, op.314
  • Johann Strauss (father): Radetzky March , op.228

Television broadcast

The second part of the live broadcast of the "New Year's Concert of the Vienna Philharmonic" saw 1,080,000 viewers in Austria. The New Year's Concert 2002 was a co-production between ORF, ZDF and the Japanese television company NHK . It was broadcast in two parts and could be seen in 48 countries on five continents. The Spanish Riding School was shown on live TV for the first time since 1987 . On the occasion of the introduction of the euro, the director Brian Large shot a “Dance of Machines” in the Oesterreichische Nationalbank and the Austrian Mint. The setting for the "Danube Waltz", traditionally danced live by the Vienna State Opera Ballet and choreographed by Vladimir Malakhov , was the parliament building. For the break program, Gernot Friedel filmed Austrian rivers, lakes and glaciers “In the river of the seasons”.

Recordings

A live recording of the concert was published on compact discs ( DNB 358085918 ) and on DVD.

The recording of the concert is one of the best-selling albums in Austria in 2002 .

In Japan, the first limited edition CD was released on January 19, 2002, and a full recording was released on March 27, 2002. Total sales in Japan were 800,000 copies.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rudolf Fehrmann: More than a million saw the "New Year's Concert of the Vienna Philharmonic 2002" on ORF , on orf.at, viewed on January 1, 2020.
  2. ^ New Year's Concert 2002 , in: Wiener Zeitung of December 31, 2001, viewed on January 1, 2020.
  3. ↑ New Year's Concert of the Vienna Philharmonic 2002 in the Internet Movie Database (English)