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New Year's Day Concert from Vienna

BBC Radio 3
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Brian Kay presents the Vienna
Philharmonic Orchestra's traditional new year concert of music by the Strauss family and friends, live from the Golden Hall of Vienna's Musikverein. Alongside old favourites like the Emperorand Blue
Danube waltzes, guest conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt features some of Brahms's Hungarian Dances and Weber's Invitation to the Dance, orchestrated by Berlioz.
10.50 Twenty Minutes: A Local Habitation Vienna looms large in the work of the Austrian novelist Heimito von Doderer.
Piers Burton-Page evokes Doderer's Vienna between the wars.
11.10 New Year's Day Concert, part 2

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Unknown:
Brian Kay
Conductor:
Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Source: Radio Times

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