New Year's Concert 2008 / Pretre, Wien Phil.
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Actor: Ballett der Wiener Staatsoper, Ballett der Wiener Volksoper, Georges Pretre, Lang Lang, Wiener PhilharmonikerDirector: Brian Large
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: German (Original Language)
Format: Anamorphic, Classical, Color, DVD-Video, HiFi Sound, NTSC, Surround Sound, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 129 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-02-12
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Decca
Movie Reviews of New Year's Concert 2008 / Pretre, Wien Phil.
Movie Review: Some first time inclusions
Summary: 5 Stars
With a world-wide TV and radio audience guaranteed and a tradition going back nearly 80 years, the Vienna Philharmonic New Year concerts can now afford to present several first time inclusions selected from the works of the over-worked and over-stressed Strauss Family. Six items in the 2008 program make their first appearance. Two are by Strauss The Father including a waltz with a short introduction that becomes very loud. These two items acknowledge French inspiration, as does Johann The Son's "Orpheus Quadrille", entirely based (not merely providing "echoes" as the booklet writer asserts) on melodies from Offenbach's "Orpheus in the Underworld".
Another first time inclusion is the veteran French conductor Georges Pr?tre whose selection of tempi changes within the waltzes and polkas are nicely judged even if they remove the music far away from its dance origins.
Those who wish to have the concert in DVD format can access some ballet sequences - distinctly more modern in style than usually provided, but timed to fit the music perfectly.
Summary of New Year's Concert 2008 / Pretre, Wien Phil.
The New Year's Concert in Vienna has been a glorious tradition for over six decades. A best-selling classical event, the concert has a unique global appeal. It has been broadcast on TV and radio to over 50 countries, and is viewed by tens of millions of people all over the world. The 2008 New Year's Day Concert will be conducted by the eminent conductor Georges Pr?tre, the first French conductor to receive this honor. The concert program for January 1, 2008 will be the customary collection of Strauss delights, but this time with a French theme. Receiving its first performance at a New Year's Concert, Napoleon March op. 156 by Johann Strauss II will open the program. The traditional encores of Blue Danube Waltz and Radetzky March will be joined by the Sport Polka as a nod to the European Football Championship to be held in Vienna in 2008. The Summer Olympics in Beijing is also being saluted by the orchestra with an early work of the elder Johann Strauss, his exotically colored Chinese Gallop.Art House & International DVD Video
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