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Title: interesting selection
Review: I have been an avid follower of the Vienna New Year's Concert for many years, and especially since the conductors chance every year it has become a very intersting musical offering. One has to give Harnoncourt once again great credit for a highly interesting program selection. In the area of light viennese polka and waltz music there a many beaten paths and many favorites played to death. Harnoncourt uses his great knowledge and thoroughness to surprise listeners with different wonderful pieces every time he ventures into this genre. As a musical scholar and teacher one of his great themes is the musical dialogue, and in this collaboration with the Vienna Philharmonic (he used to be a cellist in this same orchestra), the dialogue is clearly working very well. My one issue with him once again is pace. Some of the pieces are a bit slow-footed and they loose their lightness in the process.
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