News Release
Franz Welser-Möst to conduct
Vienna Philharmonic's New Year's Concert 2011
Concert to be telecast internationally; to air in Miami on January 1 on WPBT2
Release date: December 30, 2010
Franz Welser-Möst conducting the Vienna Philharmonic; the New Year’s Concert at Vienna’s Musikverein
On January 1, Cleveland Orchestra Music Director Franz Welser-Möst will conduct the Vienna Philharmonic in its annual New Year’s Concert, which in terms of its international coverage, represents the largest classical music event in the world. The concert will be broadcast on television and radio in over 70 countries worldwide, and will be telecast nationally in the United States on PBS Great Performances’ program From Vienna: The New Year’s Celebration 2011.
In Miami, the program will air at 8 p.m. on WPBT2.
Franz Welser-Möst, following in the footsteps of Clemens Krauss, Josef Krips, Willi Boskovsky, Herbert von Karajan, and Nikolaus Harnoncourt, will be the sixth Austrian conductor to conduct the Vienna Philharmonic in its annual concert on January 1. In June 2010, Franz Welser-Möst also conducted the second major annual event of the Vienna Philharmonic, the Summer Night Concert on the grounds of Schönbrunn Palace.
The Vienna Philharmonic’s New Year’s Concerts, which began during World War II, presents Viennese musical culture at the highest level and sends the world a New Year’s greeting in the spirit of hope, friendship, and peace.
PBS’s broadcast of the performance, hosted by news veteran Paula Zahn, includes some of the Strauss family’s most famous melodies, along with works by Liszt and Beethoven. In addition, the concert will feature a performance of Johann Strauss II’s “On the Beautiful Blue Danube” waltz, accompanied by a ballet.
The program also features video footage of locations such as Liszt’s living room, the Winter Riding School in the Hofburg Palace, home of the Lipizzaner Stallions, the former Lobkovitz Palace, and now the Austrian Theatre Museum, and Laudon Castle in the Vienna Woods.
The performance will be released globally on compact disc and DVD in January 2011.
To view a video preview of the PBS Great Performances program, visit PBS.org.
For more information, please visit WPBT2.org.
Calendar Listing
Vienna Philharmonic New Year's Concert 2011 with Franz Welser-Möst
Saturday, January 1, 2011 at 8 p.m. on WPBT2
The Vienna Philharmonic
Franz Welser-Möst, conductor
Franz Welser-Möst , Cleveland Orchestra Music Director and Music Director of the Vienna State Opera, conducts the traditional New Year’s program with the Vienna Philharmonic from the Musikverein. The program includes Johann Strauss II’s “On the Beautiful Blue Danube”, “Rider’s March”, “Spanish March”, and “Mephisto Waltz,” by Franz Liszt.
Johann Strauss II Rider’s March, op. 428
Johann Strauss II On the Beautiful Blue Danube Waltz, op. 427
Johann Strauss II Amazon’s Polka, op. 9
Johann Strauss II Debut Quadrille, op. 2
Josef Lanner Die Schönbrunner Waltz, op. 200
Johann Strauss II Muthig voran! Fast Polka, op. 432
Johann Strauss II Csárdás from "Ritter Pasman
Johann Strauss II Abschieds-Rufe, Waltz, op. 179
Johann Strauss I Furioso-Gallop on Motives by Liszt op. 114
Franz Liszt Mephisto Waltz No. 1
Josef Strauss From Afar, Polka Mazur, op. 270
Johann Strauss II Spanish March, op. 433
Joseph Hellmesberger Gypsy Dance from "The Pearl of Iberia"
Johann Strauss I Cachucha Gallop, op. 97
Josef Strauss Mein Lebenslauf ist Lieb und Lust, Waltz, op. 263
All artists and programs are subject to change.
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