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New Year's Concert 2024 - Google Drive Link

Credit: Dieter Nagl for the Vienna Philharmonic

Am 18. Jänner 2024 um 22:00 Uhr findet der 81. Ball der Wiener Philharmoniker in den Sälen des Wiener Musikvereins statt.

Traditionell wird der Ball von den Wiener Philharmonikern im Großen Saal des Wiener Musikvereins feierlich eröffnet. Die Eröffnung wird 2024 von Philippe Jordan musikalisch geleitet, der somit sein "Ball-Debüt" gibt.

Am Programm der Balleröffnung stehen 2 Werke von Johann Strauß Sohn: der Walzer Rosen aus dem Süden, op. 388, und die Polka schnell Unter Donner und Blitz, op. 324. Vor 100 Jahren fand zum ersten Mal der Ball der Wiener Philharmoniker statt. Richard Strauss komponierte zu diesem Anlass die Wiener Philharmoniker-Fanfare, die bis heute zur Eröffnung erklingt. Auch John Williams widmete im Vorjahr dem Orchester eine Ball Fanfare. Auch seine Fanfare for the Vienna Philharmonic Ball wird erneut  zu hören sein.

Die Tanzschule Elmayer choreographiert 2024 erneut den Einzug und Eröffnungswalzer des Jungdamen- und Jungherren-Komitees.

2024 ist das Traditionsunternehmen BUNDY bereits zum 9. Mal für das Haarstyling der Debütantinnen verantwortlich. „Mädchenhaft, lieblich und schwungvoll, elegant präsentiert sich die Philharmonikerballfrisur 2024 von BUNDY. Locker nach oben frisierte Partien umrahmen spielerisch das Diadem. Zwei locker getwistete Strähnen am Hinterkopf spiegeln die Harmonie eines im Dreivierteltakt tanzenden Paars wider", erklärt Pia Bundy (CEO BUNDY).

Im Verlauf der Ballnacht erwartet die Ballgäste ein vielfältiges und erlesenes musikalisches Programm mit Darbietungen philharmonischer Ensembles und besonderer Gäste. Ab 21:00 Uhr wird im Eingangsfoyer ein Ensemble der Orchesterakademie der Wiener Philharmoniker spielen.

Die Damenspende wird von der Firma Riedel - The Wine Glass Company zur Verfügung gestellt, die Herrenspende vom Weingut Schloss Gobelsburg.

Die Karten für den Ball sind ab sofort in Verbindung mit einem Tisch erhältlich. Der allgemeine Kartenverkauf beginnt am 8. Jänner 2024 um 9:30 Uhr.

Pressefotos und Informationen finden Sie hier.

Presseakkreditierungen bei Klaus Dollnig unter: ball-presse@wphil.com

The Vienna Philharmonic is pleased to announce the program of the Summer Night Concert 2023 and provide additional information about this event.

The Summer Night Concert 2023 will take place in the Schönbrunn Palace Park on June 8, 2023, at 08:30 PM. 

This year the concert will be conducted for the first time by Maestro Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the soloist will be Elīna Garanča, who will sing three arias from Georges Bizet's Carmen, Charles Gounod's Sapho and Camille Saint-Saëns' Samson et Dalila.

"The program of this year's Summer Night Concert will focus on works from French Romanticism to Impressionism. Also featured for the first time will be a composition by Lili Boulanger - a moving depiction of nature by the young composer who became the first female winner of the prestigious Prix de Rome in 1913. We will dedicate the performance of this composition to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which was signed 75 years ago and strengthened 30 years ago, at the Vienna World Conference on Human Rights through a concrete action program. A clear commitment to human rights is more important today than ever," says Daniel Froschauer, Chairman of the Vienna Philharmonic.

The program will consist of the following compositions:

• Georges Bizet, Suite No. 1 from Carmen (Arrangement attributed to Ernest Guiraud 1885)
  • No. 5. Les Toréadors (Introduction to Act I)
  • No. 2. Intermezzo (Prelude to Act III)
  • No. 1a. Aragonaise (Prelude to Act IV)
• Georges Bizet, Habanera “L’amour est un oiseau rebelle” from Carmen
• Lili Boulanger, D‘un matin de printemps. Version for orchestra 1918
• Hector Berlioz, Le Corsaire - Overture, op. 21
• Charles Gounod, „Ô ma lyre immortelle“ Aria from Sapho
• Maurice Ravel, Daphnis et Chloé. Suite No. 2
• Camille Saint-Saëns, „Mon cœur s’ouvre à ta voix” Aria from Samson et Dalila
• Maurice Ravel, Boléro

(Program subject to change)

As always, all interested viewers can experience the Summer Night Concert 2023 by way of the television broadcast or internet livestream.

The ORF will broadcast the concert time-delayed beginning at 9.20 PM in ORF 2.
3sat will broadcast the concert time-delayed on June 8 beginning at 9.45 PM. We kindly request that you check local listings for broadcast information in your home country.

Further information can be found at the website of the Vienna Philharmonic: www.sommernachtskonzert.at

Vienna Philharmonic is proud to announce its partnership with Apple Music Classical:
the new streaming app designed for classical music listeners of all kinds.

It contains the largest classical music catalog in the world, including hundreds of recordings from Vienna Philharmonic which can be enjoyed in the highest audio quality: lossless up to 24 bit and Spatial Audio with Dolby Atmos.

Within this partnership, Vienna Philharmonic is delighted to announce the release, exclusively on Apple Music Classical, of six recordings of the  Subscription Concerts from the previous and current season, produced together with Unitel and ORF and distributed by Platoon.

Since 1860, the Vienna Philharmonic's Subscription Concerts have formed the basis of the orchestra's musical endeavours and have become an indispensable component of Viennese musical life. Together with the New Year’s Concert and the Summer Night Concert, the Orchestra’s Subscription Concerts are ultimate references for classical music lovers around the globe. The popularity of this series is such that the fans of the Orchestra need to wait years before having a chance to get a subscription. As the recordings of these concerts become available for streaming for the first time, a much larger group of classical fans will have the chance to enjoy these iconic performances. 

In the coming months and for the next four seasons, on top of these six recordings, additional Subscription Concerts will be released exclusively on Apple Music Classical.

On 28 March 2023, the Vienna Philharmonic held a memorial ceremony to remember its colleagues and their families who were murdered, persecuted, and exiled during the period of National Socialism and the Shoah. It took place in front of the house of former concertmaster Arnold Rosé and his family at Pyrkergasse 23, 1190 Vienna. The ceremony was attended by Prof. Daniel Froschauer, Chairman of the Vienna Philharmonic, a brass ensemble of the Vienna Philharmonic, the President of the Jewish Community Vienna, Oskar Deutsch, the Chief Cantor Shmuel Barzilai and the Executive City Councillor for Culture and Science, Mag. Veronica Kaup-Hasler.

In cooperation with Univ.-Prof. DDr. Oliver Rathkolb, the Chairmen of the association "Stones of Remembrance for the Victims of the Shoah", DI Thomas Breth and Mag. Gerhard Burda, as well as the Cultural Office of the City of Vienna, the Vienna Philharmonic commissioned 17 commemorative stones, which were placed since spring 2022 in front of the last residences, which are listed as their addresses in the Vienna Philharmonic Historical Archives.

"Our commemoration is intended to be a clear and visible signal against forgetting and to contribute to returning to all our colleagues the honor that was at one time denied them. We are aware that today, even in the field of culture, we are not immune to injustice structures similar to those of that time. We have deliberately chosen this hour of commemoration on the day that marks the 181st anniversary of the birth of the Vienna Philharmonic. But it also points to the future and is to be understood as an appeal to present and future generations of musicians to remain vigilant and to assume social and democratic responsibility," says Daniel Froschauer, Chairman of the Vienna Philharmonic.

Salzburg, July 29, 2022 

With the recording of Anton Bruckner's 9th Symphony at the 2022 Salzburg Festival, Christian Thielemann, the Vienna Philharmonic and UNITEL will complete the complete audiovisual recording of Anton Bruckner's symphonic works and present Edition Bruckner 11 to the public.

No less than two of the total of five releases will appear on DVD and Blu-ray in the summer of 2022 on the UNITEL EDITION label. By 2024, the 200th anniversary of Anton Bruckner's birth, three more individual releases will follow, as well as a complete box set.
Bruckner 11 is the first symphonic complete recording in the orchestra's history. With Christian Thielemann, who already set standards in 2011 with his Beethoven cycle on the podium of the Vienna Philharmonic, the orchestra was able to win one of the most renowned Bruckner interpreters of today as conductor.

Recording for the centennial project Bruckner 11 began in April 2019 and took place at the Salzburg Festival and the Vienna Musikverein. UNITEL produced in collaboration with international broadcast partners such as ORF, ZDF, Arte, 3sat and Japanese television NHK in the highest technical quality, i.e. in Ultra High Definition and with surround sound. The cycle, originally designed to include the nine known symphonies, was expanded in winter 2021 to include the two early symphonies in F minor and D minor. Pandemic-related cancellations of tours and festivals made it possible at short notice to rehearse and record these early works, which neither Christian Thielemann nor the orchestra had ever played before. Both works are "true discoveries" and may be considered full-fledged symphonies, which is what the edition name Bruckner 11is meant to express. As part of this release, the F minor and D minor symphonies are also being released on DVD and Blu-ray for the first time ever.

Each release includes extensive bonus material: for each symphony, there is an introductory conversation between Christian Thielemann and Austrian Bruckner expert Dr. Johannes Leopold Mayer. 

The project was enriching for both orchestra and conductor: "I find the collaboration with the Vienna Philharmonic to be extraordinarily harmonious, not only artistically but also on a personal level," says Christian Thielemann. "I feel particularly at home with this orchestra and can first and foremost only thank them for the incredibly beautiful collaboration. The fact that we were able to do Bruckner 11 together, and that I have unexpectedly come to the honor of being the first conductor to record all the Bruckner symphonies with this orchestra, is a very special surprise and pleasure."

For the Vienna Philharmonic, Anton Bruckner has special significance, especially in view of the composer's 200th birthday in 2024: "With the audiovisual edition Bruckner 11, the Vienna Philharmonic pays tribute to the extensive symphonic oeuvre of the great Austrian composer Anton Bruckner. More than almost any other orchestra, we can look back on a shared history with him that was borne of the composer's great esteem for the orchestra and had a significant impact on Austrian musical culture," says Philharmonic Board Member Prof. Daniel Froschauer. "The anniversary provides a welcome occasion to revive the tradition of Bruckner's music for the first time in our orchestral history in a complete recording of all nine symphonies and two of his rarely performed brilliant early works with one and the same conductor. We have a very close artistic partnership and friendship with Christian Thielemann."

Markus Hinterhäuser, artistic director of the Salzburg Festival: "For me, there is currently no more ideal combination for the symphonic works of Anton Bruckner than the Vienna Philharmonic and Christian Thielemann. This was impressively demonstrated by the acclaimed performances of the Fourth and Seventh in the last two Festival summers. So this summer I am looking forward to the Ninth with our Vienna Philharmonic under Christian Thielemann. I would like to thank our exclusive audiovisual media partner UNITEL for preserving and publishing our Festival performances at the highest technical and artistic level." 

Jan Mojto, Managing Partner of UNITEL: "Since its founding, UNITEL has also seen itself as a preserver of traces. After the artistic success of Beethoven 9 with Christian Thielemann and the Vienna Philharmonic, we are proud to now also realize their Bruckner cycle including the two early works recorded for the first time." 
Beyond its release on DVD and Blu-ray, Bruckner 11 will be distributed by UNITEL worldwide in TV, cinema and new media. 

Beyond the release on DVD and Blu-ray, Bruckner 11 will be distributed by UNITEL worldwide in TV, cinema and new media. 

The concert of the Vienna Philharmonic under Christian Thielemann on July 30, 2022 will be broadcast in Austria and Germany as follows: 
Saturday, July 30, 2022, at 11:00 a.m. live on myfidelio.at 
Saturday, 29.10.2022, at 8.15 p.m. on 3sat

Internationally, the concert will further be shown on Mezzo and on medici.tv. The complete cycle will be available on Carnegie Hall+ in the fall of 2022.

The Vienna Philharmonic and UNITEL have been working together for more than 55 years and have now realized more than 300 joint productions, including several legendary symphonic cycles under the greatest conductors of the time and a large number of opera recordings. This makes the Vienna Philharmonic by far UNITEL's closest and longest-standing partner. 

At the Salzburg Festival, of which UNITEL has been the exclusive audiovisual partner since the Mozart Year 2006, the company has recorded more than 150 productions to date, including such cult productions as La Traviatamit Anna Netrebko and Rolando Villazón, Salome with Asmik Grigorian, William Kentridge's Wozzeck and all Mozart operas as part of Mozart 22. In the anniversary year 2020, when the Salzburg Festival was one of the few organizers to offer performances despite the pandemic, UNITEL, in cooperation with ORF, ZDF, ARTE, myfidelio.at and others, broadcast a production from Salzburg every day during the festival season. 

UNITEL EDITION is UNITEL's in-house label, distributed by C-Major. Founded in 2018, it has released more than 30 releases to date, including Leonard Bernstein's Young People's Concerts, a John Cranko cycle with the Stuttgart Ballet, and 15 recordings from the Salzburg Festival. 

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