2024-01-01 02:56:54
There is no proper start to the year if you do not hear the waltzes and polkas of the Strauss family from the Golden Room of the Muskverein in Vienna. Again, there will not be much risk in the election, although seeing Christian Thielemann leading the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra for the New Year’s Concert suggests a certain desire to take a bit of risk.
After the, to say the least, questionable direction of Franz Welser-Möst in 2023, the one who became the first German director to take the baton of the group in this gala in 2019 repeats five years later. The current director of the Berlin State Opera Unter den Linden is going to face a great novelty in the repertoire.
And, in addition to the classic waltzes and polkas of the Strausses among others, the great novelty will be the inclusion in the program of a piece by Anton Brucknerthe ‘Quadrille, WAB 121’, in commemoration of the bicentenary of the birth of the Austrian composer, one of the greatest exponents of romanticism of the time.
Another year without a woman
It’s been a while since it’s been news that there will not be a woman at the head of the Vienna Philharmonic on January 1 on the more than 55 million television stations that are expected to watch the concert, under the argument that they have to have directors with whom they have already been working for at least ten years.
The choice made by Daniel Forschauer, president of the Philharmonic, lives up to this maxim in spades. Head of the Saxon State Orchestra of Dresden since 2012, he has been working with the Viennese orchestra since 2000. In fact, he has regularly conducted this orchestra in the subscription season and at the Musikverein itself and at the Salzburg Festival, but also He has been chosen to go on tour through Asia, the United States and various European countries.
Forschauer considers him “one of the Philharmonic directors who is closest to the orchestra”, which also made him an ideal choice to celebrate Bruckner’s bicentennial, since Thielemann is behind an eleven o’clock project. symphonies by the Austrian composer that will go on sale in 2024 that will start with his baton.
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