Fireworks, waltzes, champagne arias, and the "Ode to Joy" – send 2008 out with a bang this new year’s eve on VPR Classical!
A New Year’s Eve Celebration!
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Playlist:
8:02 pm
- On The Town: Ballet (3 Dance Episodes)
- Composer: Leonard Bernstein
- Ensemble: New York Philharmonic
- Conductor: Leonard Bernstein
- Record co./Cat #: Sony 42263
8:12 pm
- To All the Good Children, a Happy New Year
- Composer: Prudence Houston
- Ensemble: Pro Arte Singers
- Conductor: Paul Hillier
- Record co./Cat #: Harmonia Mundi 3957233
8:15 pm
- Blue Danube Waltz
- Composer: Johann Strauss II
- Ensemble: Vienna Johann Strauss Orchestr
- Conductor: Willi Boskovsky
- Record co./Cat #: EMI 47052
8:26 pm
- Symphony #9 in d, Op. 125 "Ode to Joy": (final mvmt) Ode to Joy
- Composer: Ludwig Van Beethoven
- Ensemble: Berlin Philharmonic
- Soloists: Vienna Men's Chorus ; Janet Perry, soprano ; Agnes Baltsa, mezzo-soprano ; Vinson Cole, tenor ; Jose Van Dam, baritone
- Conductor: Herbert von Karajan
- Record co./Cat #: Deutsche Grammophon 439148
- Note: (with text by Friedrich von Schiller)
8:48 pm
- Music for the Royal Fireworks
- Composer: George Friederich Handel
- Ensemble: Chambre du Roy, Grande Ecurie
- Conductor: Jean-Claude Malgoire
- Record co./Cat #: Sony 48285
9:10 pm
- Hary Janos: Suite
- Composer: Zoltan Kodaly
- Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor: Neeme Jarvi
- Record co./Cat #: Chandos 8877
9:32 pm
- Rodeo
- Composer: Aaron Copland
- Ensemble: St Louis Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor: Leonard Slatkin
- Record co./Cat #: EMI 47382
9:54 pm
- Don Giovanni, K527: Finch'han dal vino , K 527
- Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Ensemble: Vienna Haydn-Orchester
- Soloists: Tom Krause, bass
- Conductor: Istvan Kertesz
- Record co./Cat #: London 460651
- Note: (Act I, scene 5 - Don Giovanni's "champagne" aria)
9:56 pm
- Champagner Galopp
- Composer: Johann Strauss
- Ensemble: Salon Orchestra of Cologne
- Record co./Cat #: RCA 69297