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"For those who unaccountably slept through New Year's Day concert from Vienna, broadcast live around Europe, this two-CD set is for you. Georges Prêtre, 85, the first Frenchman to take on this hallowed tradition, is in intoxicating form, adding Offenbach bonbons to the Viennese whirls, gallops, polkas, marches, whistles, car horns and, above all, waltzes, chiefly by Johann Strauss I and II." (The Observer)
For those who unaccountably slept through New Year's Day concert from Vienna, broadcast live around Europe, this two-CD set is for you. Georges Prêtre, 85, the first Frenchman to take on this hallowed tradition, is in intoxicating form, adding Offenbach bonbons to the Viennese whirls, gallops, polkas, marches, whistles, car horns and, above all, waltzes, chiefly by Johann Strauss I and II.
"So successful was octogenarian Georges Prêtre’s first appearance at the helm of the Vienna Philharmonic on New Year’s Day, 2008, that he was invited back for this concert. The decision paid dividends; if anything, this year’s version is even better than that of 2008...
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