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Georges Prêtre
New Year's Concert 2010
Genre: Classical

Track Listings (8) - Disc #1
1. Overture Die Fledermaus
2. Frauenherz - polka mazur, Op.166
3. Im Krapfenwald'l - polka fran?aise, Op.336
4. St?rmisch in Lieb' und Tanz - polka schnell, Op.393
5. Wein, Weib und Gesang, Op.333
6. Perpetuum mobile, Op.257
7. Die Lustigen Weiber Von Windsor: Overture (The Merry Wives Of Windsor)
8. Wiener Bonbons, Op.307
Track Listings (11) - Disc #2
1. Champagner-Polka (Champagne Polka) - Musikalischer Scherz Op.211 (1858)
2. Ein Herz, ein Sinn. Polka mazur, Op.323
3. Der Carneval in Paris, Galopp Op.100
4. Die Rheinnixen: Overture
5. Helenen-Quadrille, Op.14
6. Morgenblatter Walzer Opus 279 (Morning Papers Waltz)
7. Champagner-Galopp
8. Auf der Jagd, Op.373
9. New Year's Address 2010
10. An der sch?nen blauen Donau, Op.314
11. Radetzky March Opus 228

CD Details

All Artists: Georges Prêtre
Title: New Year's Concert 2010
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Decca
Original Release Date: 1/1/2010
Re-Release Date: 2/23/2010
Genre: Classical
Style: Symphonies
Number of Discs: 2
SwapaCD Credits: 2
UPC: 028947821137

Synopsis

Album Description

The annual New Year's Concert from Vienna, seen by millions on TV worldwide, is the best-known classical concert in the world. Featured Composers: J Strauss II, J Strauss I, Offenbach, Nicolai, and more! Georges Prêtre returns to Vienna's illustrious Musikverein to conduct a compelling program that combines adored classics with no less than four intriguing premieres. Idolized in Vienna, the legendary French maestro, Georges Prêtre is a leading expert on and interpreter of the music of the Strauss family. The Wiener Philharmoniker's 2010 New Year's Concert comes complete on 2 CDs for a 2 for 1 price. Also released on DVD, featuring the complete concert, supplemented by ballet highlights and the traditional intermission feature.

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CD Reviews

An elegant but rather tired event under the aged Pretre

Santa Fe Listener | Santa Fe, NM USA | 02/28/2010

(3 out of 5 stars)

"I can see why the Vienna Phil. invited Georges Pretre back so soon after his 2008 appearance: he scored a hit then with a Napoleonic theme. It was refreshing to hear how linked to France the Strauss family -- and all of Europe -- was, and many delightful surprises emerged. But 2010 is a letdown. There's no consistent theme, the selections are conventional, and Pretre, now 85, has lost considerable energy. He's capable of some affectionate readings, a far cry from his blood-and-thunder prime, and the orchestra responds very nicely, as they didn't seem to for Jansons and Barenboim in preceding years. The engineers provide ravishing sound, quite detailed and sparkling. But doses of affection and good sound aren't enough to rescue this concert from a feeling of fatigue, the last thing one wants from the ebullient Strausses."