Vienna. Freshness, passion and temperament: the baton of maestro venezuelan Gustavo Dudamel took today aires renewing the traditional New Year’s Concert of the Vienna Philharmonic to welcome 2017. Innovation without damaging the traditional identity of the event, focused as it is every year, on the works of the dynasty of the austrian Strauss: seven of them were played for the first time in the concert of this edition, number 76, with frequency marked by the strong temperament of the director.
With only 35 years, the venezuelan director of orchestra younger at the baton of this traditional concert that was held in the Golden Hall of the Vienna Musikverein, characterized this time by a new and creative decor: thousands of colorful flowers that each year grace the event, was joined by tropical fruits such as pineapples and lemons.
Dudamel, also a violist and comes from a family of musicians, he showed his joy for the occasion before the world-renowned concert.
“Now I can die in peace,” he said before the event, ensuring that above all wanted to have fun and getting ahead that I would not change too much the tradition.
The soup kitchen, the orchestra is perfect and his intention was only sazonarla a little stronger and bring a bit of “Latin fire”, which had been secured in the form of metaphor. And he got it.
The enthusiasm of the director was palpable in some of the passages of the waltz and quick polkas, directed always with a broad smile on the face and conveying his passion for music to the audience from the room, waiting for the required “Prosit Neujahr!”, the greeting with which the Vienna Philharmonic gives traditionally welcome the New Year to the attendees.
in Addition to the usual animated parts of the dynasty Strauss, sounded works of Franz Lehár, Émile Waldteufel or Franz von Suppé.
An important goal of the organizers was to convey a sense of hope and optimism after a turbulent 2016 to the millions of television viewers. The waltz “Mephistos Höllenrufe” (“Cries of Mephistopheles from hell”) was responded to by the polka So ängstlich sind wir nicht” (something like that, as ‘we don’t have so much fear’), the two of Johann Strauss (son).
The concert was broadcast in more than 90 countries around the world and was followed by more than 50 million viewers. In addition, 40 radio stations aired the show live.
live enjoyed the show as guests the former president of austria Heinz Fischer and the minister of Defence of germany, Ursula von der Leyen, who listened with attention to the waltz “The Blue Danube”, played for the first time 150 years ago, and accompanied with palmas “La Marcha Radetzky”.
The ballet of the Vienna State Opera accompanied some of the pieces from the palace of Hermesvilla, a gift from Franz Joseph I of Austria to his wife Elisabeth of Bavaria (“Sisi”).
The Vienna Philharmonic also celebrated its 175th anniversary with a new wardrobe, in charge of the british designer Vivienne Westwood and her husband, the austrian Andreas Kronthaler. The musicians will be able to carry their uniforms in the future both day and night by making small adaptations, for example replacing the bow tie by the tie.
For women, the designers were inspired by the jackets of the EIGHTEENTH century. The president of the Philharmonic Andreas Großbauer he spoke of an “evolution but not revolution”.
This evolution was also on the stage, where the rapport between Dudamel and the Philharmonic was evident, and it is that since 2007 has offered more than 45 concerts together. After the concert today, will start a tour of South america.
But if this year the New Year’s Concert in Vienna has been marked by the innovation of Dudamel, the next one will be a veteran who returns to direct the event: the Italian Riccardo Mutti, 75 years, will open 2018 at the front of an orchestra with whom he has been working many years and of which he is a member of the honor since 2011.
it Will be the fifth time, after 1993, 1997, 2000 and 2004. In total, throughout his career he has led the Vienna Philharmonic in about 500 concerts.
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