Vienna Philharmonic New Year's Concert 2018

[Darkbloom]

Happy birthday Alpensymphonie and many HIPPy returns!

I listened to the concert on the radio, and didn't like it as much as last year's. The familiar pieces were as they always are and the unfamiliar ones didn't really yield any new discoveries.

Something that irritated me whenever PT started talking though was his total lack of effort towards anything resembling German pronunciation (including of course the last name of the principal composers). Does he think he's still at Classic FM?

I'm no great PT fan but 'Strauss' is almost always given in the anglicised pronunciation. Just as only a minority get Wagner's first name correct too. It's almost an unwritten rule that that's the way it's done, out of laziness probably.

I've read on here that PT is an amiable cove in person and I wish I liked him more, but he has just about the most irritating manner of anyone I have ever heard on the radio.

[Petrushka]

Did you know the Suppe, Pet?

Didn’t recognise the timpanist and felt he could have been more assertive.

Yes, the Suppe is on a Boskovsky/Johann Strauss Orchestra LP I bought way back in 1973! That same recording is on CD https://www.amazon.co.uk/Waltzes-Mar...ords=boskovsky

[Alison]

Yes, the Suppe is on a Boskovsky/Johann Strauss Orchestra LP I bought way back in 1973! That same recording is on CD https://www.amazon.co.uk/Waltzes-Mar...ords=boskovsky

Cheers Pet

[Alison]

Hadn’t realised the Thielemann LvB cycle was the industry standard! Even so I will be open minded for next year.

More interesting than another Jansons or Barenboim.

[pastoralguy]

Hadn’t realised the Thielemann LvB cycle was the industry standard! Even so I will be open minded for next year.

Believe me, Alison - it's not! I found it in a cd sale for a fiver a month after it was released!

[Petrushka]

Sorry but I just don't get the problem people have with Petroc. There was nothing risible about his pronunciation, He imparted a good deal of information between items and didn't make the mistake of being caught talking over the music. A solid professional job in my view. At least we weren't lumbered with KD.

[Richard Tarleton]

it's reassuring to see him looking on such good form

I'd like to make special mention of his hair - which flops forward, like spaniel ears, when he dips his head, and flies back when he tosses it.....it's the centre parting, cut just short enough not to actually get in his eyes. How he lives with it, I have no idea, but I suppose it's his trademark.

[Alison]

Sorry but I just don't get the problem people have with Petroc. There was nothing risible about his pronunciation, He imparted a good deal of information between items and didn't make the mistake of being caught talking over the music. A solid professional job in my view. At least we weren't lumbered with KD.

Don’t suppose forumites would want back Brian Kay either!

[Richard Barrett]

'Strauss' is almost always given in the anglicised pronunciation. Just as only a minority get Wagner's first name correct too. It's almost an unwritten rule that that's the way it's done, out of laziness probably.

Exactly.

[Pianorak]

A solid professional job in my view. At least we weren't lumbered with KD.

[Petrushka]

Seemed a short first half this year .

The first half has always been some 35 minutes in length, certainly since I first started listening in 1972, and today it was indeed just a notch over 35 minutes so nothing short measure about it.

Not a massive Thielemann fan myself after a couple of lacklustre Proms with his Dresden band in 2016 but the orchestra want him to do it so...

[Ein Heldenleben]

Interesting that the interval feature on TV celebrated 100 years of modernism in Vienna. Architecture ? Check. Painting ? Check. Design ? Check. Music ? I think you can guess the answer.

Having listened to the R3 interval feature some Schoenberg would have been historically accurate as well as just and fitting. Perhaps one of his Strauss arrangements.....? Though I dread to think what mis-en-scene the cliché loving director would have come up with.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Sorry but I just don't get the problem people have with Petroc. There was nothing risible about his pronunciation, He imparted a good deal of information between items and didn't make the mistake of being caught talking over the music. A solid professional job in my view. At least we weren't lumbered with KD.

Well Muti isn't French. There are only 5 vowel sounds in Italian and Petroc got both of them wrong.

[richardfinegold]

I'm no great PT fan but 'Strauss' is almost always given in the anglicised pronunciation. Just as only a minority get Wagner's first name correct too. It's almost an unwritten rule that that's the way it's done, out of laziness probably.

I've read on here that PT is an amiable cove in person and I wish I liked him more, but he has just about the most irritating manner of anyone I have ever heard on the radio.

My wife’s car won’t start it’s 6 degrees below Fahrenheit. I just returned from working on it in the garage and attempting a thaw before I try my luck again.
We had an aging Sony boombox in the garage that miraculously works and the first half kept me thinking I was warm and toasty. A little Strauss usually goes a long way with me but today I enjoyed it immensely.
Perhaps if I connect the fuel line to the boombox all my problems will be solved...

[kernelbogey]

My wife’s car won’t start it’s 6 degrees below Fahrenheit. I just returned from working on it in the garage and attempting a thaw before I try my luck again.
We had an aging Sony boombox in the garage that miraculously works and the first half kept me thinking I was warm and toasty. A little Strauss usually goes a long way with me but today I enjoyed it immensely.
Perhaps if I connect the fuel line to the boombox all my problems will be solved...

I think you needed Perpetuum Mobile to be played!