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happy New Year we're here with you live

with this customary antidote to the late

night revry

2025 has arrived Happy New Year from me

petro trone and a very warm welcome to

the musique fair here in Vienna once

again we share that sense of the old

year put to bed with all its moments of

joy and sadness celebration and regret

ahead lies the Clean Slate of a new year

the empty pages of a diary waiting to be

filled and what better first entry than

this Rich concert of Music familiar and

less well known from the players of the

Vienna philarmonic this year directed by

the Italian conductor Ricardo MTI the

Vienna philonic New Year concert is

supported by Rolex I can tell you a

little light snow here in Vienna this

morning the temperature hovering between

minus1 and -2° but it is warm inside the

golden Hall of the musique fair iron

where over the next few hours we'll hear

works by Constanta gerer and Yosef

helmberger Edward and Yosef Strauss and

Johan Strauss senior but as ever the

spotlight falls on Johan Strauss Jr the

wals king particularly so as this year

marks his benter he was born on October

25th 1825 in St ulich now part of

Vienna's 7th District 25 minute walk

from Musik Farine or four stops on the

number two tram the Anan and trat poers

the Overture to the operator Gypsy Baron

and the Lagoon acceleration and blue

Daniel Wales amongst the works by him we

here this morning Ricardo Muti takes to

the stage we're going to start with a

work by Johan Strauss senior composer

sharing his tasset support for events in

that revolutionary year of

1848 the freedom March

Freedom march by Johan stra senior the

composer writing in that year of

revolutions

1848 the writer August zilberstein was

intered because of his revolutionary

activities he'd written a Nolla called

Village swallows from Austria which

inspired this this W by Yosef Strauss

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Strauss based on novellas by the writer

AUST zilin who was great friends with Y

of stra his books achieved huge success

in the Germans speaking world in the

1860s Ricardo Muti born in nap he was a

Pianist before he decided early on that

he wanted to conduct it was in 18 1966

that he won a prestigious conducting

competition in Milan an event which

launched his career four years later in

1971 her Thon caran asked him to conduct

the Vienna philarmonic at the salsburg

festival thus starting a partnership

with this orchestra that has lasted well

over half a century as well as Vienna

MTI spent a decade in charge of the

London philonic 12 years at the

Philadelphia Orchestra 19 Seasons at

lascala Milan and he is now music

director emeritus of the Chicago

Symphony Orchestra which he directed for

13

years well next the first work of the

Year by Johan St Junior and

appropriately it's all about New

Beginnings in this case for Vienna in

the 1860s when the ring stresser was

being laid out the related Works were

causing chaos the sort of inconvenience

Urban dwellers in the UK especially

those with cars might complain about

today as the FR and black newspaper

noted in 1864 one need only take a walk

through the the inner city in krasa

buildings are being demolished at graban

they're Paving the street at lug they're

laying down pipes High market is closed

off and so on it

goes the construction of the Ring stru

are the largest urban Redevelopment

program in Vienna's history and of

course St on hand to write a piece of

music to reflect the upheaval he created

his demolition men's pulker saluting

workers who come from across the empire

to work on the project

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the demolition pole Cup by Johan Strauss

well from Vienna we'll take the train to

Venice we won't make the 1224 Express

but there is a night train leaving at

10: to1 arriving in perfect time for

breakfast overlooking the Lagoon the

Lagoon wal based on themes from st's

opereta a night in Venice

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opereta A Night in Venice gonda's

Carnival season and the pigeons of St

Mark Square all Central to the plot of a

show that opened in Berlin in 1883 the

only one of str's operators not

premiered here in

Vienna well let me reassure you that as

ever the dancers of Vienna State B will

be making their annual New Year's Day

appearance in the second half of this

year's concert including a moment when

they let the train take the strain as we

find them inside the Vienna technical

Museum also coming up later a work by

constan Gyer that Johan stra senior

premiered in 1848 the first time ever

music by a female composer has featured

in the New Year's Day

concert well it's Edward St next the

youngest of the stas brothers his fast

poker like and Breezy first heard in

this very Hall in 1882 Edward was music

director of the Court balls at this

point soon after the concert he would

depart for Berlin and engagements there

traveling was one of his passions he'd

wanted to become a diplomat but came

under sibling pressure to join the

Strauss family

business Vienna fonic under the Baton of

one of their self- declared favorite

conductors this year Ricardo Muti Edward

Stanis poker light and Breezy

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Edward St Ricardo Muti conducting the

Vienna philarmonic

Orchestra and that ends the first part

of this 2025 New Year's Day concerts

Ricardo Muti former conductor of the

filmonia orchestra in London the

philadelph heier and Chicago orchestras

in the states and lascala Milan he first

led this event in 1993 returning in 1997

2000 2004 and 2018 he conducted the

lockdown concert on January 1st 2021

when he the orchestra and the broadcast

team were the only people in the hall

today marking his seventh appearance

starting the new year viene style well

still to come the Overture to the Gypsy

Baron the wine women and song and of

course our annual trip towards the Black

Sea as we crisscross the European

Frontiers along the blue

danu now have you ever felt that you

were floating in another realm while

dancing the wal wal and outer space

these two Dimensions will be intertwined

during the concert break what awaits us

now is a journey of a special kind under

the title stra house Odyssey director

Barbara weisenbeck draws inspiration

from Stanley Kubrick's famous space

odyssey it's New Year's Day and a

spaceship is slowly moving towards Earth

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if you're just joining us happy New Year

from the musique fair IR here in Vienna

where the players of the Vienna F

harmonica back on stage and ready to

continue their annual program of Wales

overtures pokers and marches by the

Strauss family and friends Petro trone

with you live from the Austrian capital

on day one of

2025 well the Vienna Phil harmonicas had

a long relationship with the music of

the stra family though this was the

orchestra of Brahms and Mara it would

often play Strauss 2 the roots of this

event can be traced to the early 1930s

when conductor Clemen Krauss presented

an annual all Strauss Galler at the

Saltsburg Festival the first New Year

concert here took place on December 31st

1939 while we're live on BBC 2 and radio

3 this morning but let me assure

listeners that as ever the rich pallet

of colors inside the hall more than

stimulates the senses helping banish any

morning after the night before Funk the

Gilded careds and painted ceiling

complimented by the pastel shades of

thousands of flowers resting on a

cushion of Rich Greenery a gift from

Vienna's Municipal parks and

Gardens now shortly we'll find daners of

Vienna state ballet in the rooms of the

Sudan Hotel a once Grand Railway Hotel

built at the command of the directors of

the Searing Railway on their route South

through the mountains they're going to

dance to the music of Johan stas Jr to

remind you 2025 marking the composers B

centinary year I'm going to hear now the

over to his operator the Gypsy Baron

Ricardo Muti returns to the Stage Works

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philarmonic this New Year's Day the

Overture to the Gypsy Baron which opened

at the theater and deine in

1885 well next we are going to head to

the semmering pass where we will meet

dancers of the Vienna State ballet

taking shelter and a very glamorous but

now abandoned

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that was the accelerations wal by Johan

stra Jr the dancers filmed in the sban

hotel which opened in

1882 the v's upper classes quickly

flocked to the place until the beginning

of World War II after the war the hotel

reopened but the world had changed the

last guest checked out in

1976 the dance staging by British

choreographer Kathy Maron she is

director of ballet zerich costumes

designed by another britz Patrick

kinmonth if you're listening on radio 3

and you miss those magical images

perhaps you're in the car or kitchen and

unable to watch this morning's concert

will be repeated tonight on bbc4 at 7:00

or you can catch up with it on BBC I

player

well two Works getting their first New

Year's Day outing next in a few minutes

time the ferdinanda wals by constan

Giger the first ever work by a woman to

be heard in the New Year concert in the

events more than eight decade history

she was 12 when she wrote it in 1848 in

a popular figure at court where her

father was the future Emperor France

yosef's music teacher before that a

march by Yosef helberger former director

of the Vienna philarmonic his his

Operetta The Violet Maiden features a

trio of Brothers one as a juggler one as

an athlete one as a singer they are the

subjects of the merry Brothers

March made Premier at the car's theater

in L in VI in

1904 Ricardo Muti back on stage to

conduct the Vienna

philarmonic the Jolly Brothers March

from the violet girl by Yosef helmsburg

Jolly Brothers march by Yosef helmberger

the next constan gaer paying tribute to

Emperor Ferdinand the last king of

bohemia the austr Hungarian Emperor

forced to abdicate in that revolutionary

year of 1848

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a woman ever to feature in the Vienna

New Year's Day concert remember the

first New Year concert was back in

1939 A Ferdinand W by constan Gyer the

original version as played by the stra

orchestra is lost just the piano score

survives orchestrated for today's

concert by wul gang

durma by the way I count 11 female

players in the vi Phil harmonic lineup

this year now we are marking the benter

of Johan St Jr born in

1825 and next to work that reflects his

love life his first wife the singer

Henrietta TRS known as Jetty died in

1878 50 days after her passing he

married again this time the actress

Angelica ditri alas this time divorce

followed one of the issues was her

relationship with the leading theater

director not long before the divorce

came through Strauss wrote two pkers the

titles of which give a hint as to what

he was thinking one was called the wiser

one yields the other which we're going

to hear next was either or either him or

me Str explained was not up for any kind

of

menaja Ricardo Muti returns to conduct

either or and the dancers are back this

time there at the Vienna Museum of

Science and Technology

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wellway locomotives and ballet dancers

an unexpectedly successful

combination yes of st's transaction wal

next a transaction might be about money

but it might also represent a subtle

piece of

negotiation this is included because

2025 marks the 30th anniversary of

Austria joining the European Union

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this new Year's

day we had a nod to the railways in that

last ballet sequence just one month

before the birth of Johan St II in 1825

the world's first public Railway line

began operation between Stockton and

Darlington so that gives us another B

Sentinal to mark this year it was

Europe's growing Railway Network that

enabled the St family to achieve such

International success their or traveling

to Berlin Paris and Budapest and further

a field to St Petersburg where Johan

stas gave concerts for a decade in the

1850s and 1860s St would surely have

approved of the international nature of

this concert broadcast in 49 European

countries televised across the United

States and in other nations in the

Americas including Brazil Honduras

Jamaica and Paraguay showning Korea

Taiwan Sri Lanka Japan and reaching vast

audience is now in China truly a global

broadcast event uniting music lovers the

world over 93 countries and territories

in total this

year well every New Year's Day we

celebrate Strauss and his siblings and

his father but what about Johan ysf and

Edward's mother she was called Maria

Anna she and other Annas celebrated now

in a work Premier on St an's Day July

26th in

1852 the Anon pker

that was the Anon pker and another pker

next one that's very familiar trit TR

means chitchat or gossip St poking fun

at the Tabloid press of his day his

celebrity meant that they often had him

in their sites printing scarless stories

about his love life the trt TR po

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philarmonic this new year in Vienna

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with energy the trck TR pker well the

last work in the published program of

this 2025 New Year's Day concert is one

of strauss's greatest wal's wine women

and song Vagner Proclaim this his

favorite work by Strauss brahs quoted

from the wals in one of his string

quartets and shernell arranged it for

chamber

forces there was an immediate

International hit given its American

premere in New York a matter of months

after it had first been heard here in

Vienna

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Ricardo Muti conducting the Vienna

philarmonic stoer leading the orchestra

today next to him second principal Yaman

Sardi

Germany Ukraine New Zealand Czech

Republic France Slovenia Slovakia

Romania USA Australia Albania and South

Korea amongst the countries represented

in the violins of this Orchestra it is a

very International Ensemble and yet the

majority of the players are still austa

many coming from this

city who not loves woman wine and Song

Remains a fool his whole life long

those words attributed to Martin Luther

inspired Str to write that W in 1869

first heard in the floral Halls of the

garden Society on the ring struss a

surroundings that may not have looked

massively different to what we see in

the mque fair iron today with all these

glorious blooms having attended to by

Vienna's Municipal parks and garden

staff a Phil harmonic New Year's Day

concert is supported by Rolex

M back Center

Stage I think this is a good moment to

remind you that today's broadcast marks

the start of a European road trip for

BBC Radio 3 tomorrow Georgia man will be

live in Paris I'll be introducing

celebrated Hungarian artists and an

orchestra in Budapest on Friday morning

Tom mckin will be in Cologne on Saturday

morning and Sarah Walker will be at the

Harper Concert Hall in reic on Sunday at

9: where the celebrated Icelandic

pianist vikingo olafson will be amongst

her

guests flowers handed over to one of the

cists in the Vienna

philarmonic don't forget our New Year's

Day broadcast one of a series of

cultural highlights on the BBC this

Christmas broadcast Swan Lake from

English national ballet also glim born's

production of Lear The Merry Widow both

of those are available to watch on BBC I

player they house marry Widow always

hugely popular here in Vienna as is

strauss's defl mouse I suppose along

with this concert that's the other great

New Year tradition it's on at the

musique fair just along the ring sta

tonight at 6 our first Encore today they

comes from another St operat Indigo and

the 40 thieves usly based on the Arabian

Knights Legends this is the poker the

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fast poker the B music from Indigo and

the 40 thieves Ricardo Muti 83 born in

Naples in 19 41 his father was a doctor

and amateur tenner apparently had a

beautiful voice his relationship with

this Orchestra started in 1971 well over

half a century ago this is his seventh

New Year's Day concer so he should be

pretty familiar with the blue Dy by now

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peace fraternity and love to all the

world in this new year

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the blue danub wal by Johan Str Jr first

heard at a concert of the Vienna men's

Coral Association in February

1867 now one of the most familiar of all

orchestral Works a de facto anthem for

Austria the trademark of Johan Strauss

the Ws King born 200 years ago this year

you October

1825 the day of his birth here in

Vienna Ricardo Muti warning Naples Italy

will'll be conducting the Chicago

Symphony Orchestra in Naples Florida a

fortnite Today part of a US tour which

also takes in Miami Orlando and hary

Hall in New York retired from the

Chicago symph Orchestra in 2023 his

players elected him music director

Emeritus for

Life what a joy to spend New Year's Day

once again with this program of music

from Vienna in this great hall with its

legendry acoustic in the zik behind the

Imperial Hotel on the cner ring HED by

the Society of Friends of Music in

Vienna on land provided by Emperor

France Joseph the in

1863 and the work of Danish architect T

Phil Hansen created a neoclassical

building in the start of an ancient

Greek Temple well as ever Strauss senior

to conclude our new year Rebels the

March written in honor of field Marshall

ysep graph retki F radex who made his

name in the wars against Napoleon and

then in his 80s oversaw a series of

Victories for Austria becoming the great

Austrian military hero standby for of

the retki

March another one to clap along that

choice is entirely yours

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with a little percussive accompaniment

from those lucky enough to have secured

a seat inside the Music Fair Island for

this steadfast New Year

tradition but once the orchestra have

left the stage bedum will erupt as the

audience who may look mild mannered sees

arms of blooms to take home with them

for us 2025 has been launched in St with

Ricardo Muti and the players of the

Vienna foron on behalf of all of us here

in Vienna and our colleagues at ORF the

Austrian public broadcaster may I wish

you a safe happy healthy and prosperous

New Year

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