New Year's Concert 2008 under Georges Prêtre
Georges Prêtre becomes the first French conductor to lead the traditional New Year's Concert of the Vienna Philharmonic in the Golden Hall of the Musikverein in Vienna on January 1, 2008. Prêtre's ties to Vienna and the Vienna Philharmonic go back to 1962, when the State Opera Director at the time, Herbert von Karajan, invited Prêtre to conduct several performances of Richard Strauss' opera "Capriccio". Only a year later, he made his debut in the Philharmonic subscription concert series when he stepped in for the ailing Hans Knappertsbusch.
George Pretre is a hero. He turned the whole Blue Danube into something new. It was the first version that actually intrigued me, like it was a whole other composition.
0GL 3 years ago
Nicely played fantastic music! I like this music very much, and the first time I heard it played was decades before. Today it still interests me.
kerry6687 3 years ago
It's beautiful!
Soesii 3 years ago 2