December 31, 2016: Welcome to the New Year's Eve broadcast on Intermountain Classics! My very best wishes to all of you for a wonderfull and prosperous 2017. This weekend we welcome in the New Year with exciting performances of Bach’s New Year Cantata, Handel’s Water Music and some beautiful and swinging (!) Strauss Waltzes.
Intro: Vivaldi-"Winter" movement of 'The Four Seasons' [1.55]
Hour 1:
Fasch-Concerto in D Major for trumpet, 2 oboes, strings and continuo (Jean-Francois Paillard Chamber Orchestr conducted by Jean-Francois Paillard, with Maurice Andre, trumpet and Pierre Pierlot & Jacques Chambon, oboe) [7.12]
Handel-Water Music (Concentus musicus Wien conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt) [44.55]
Hour 2:
J.S. Bach-Cantata No. 143 (for the New Year) “Lobe Den Herrn, Meine Seele” (Frankfurter and Gachinger Kantoreien & Bach-Collegium, Stuttgart; with soloists Eva Csapo, soprano; Adalbert Kraus, tenor; and Wolfgang Schone, bass) [13.00]
Beethoven-Symphony No. 8 in F major, Opus 93 (L’Orchestre de la Suisse Romande conducted by Ernest Ansermet) [24.20]
Strauss, Johann Jr.-Dancing in Old Vienna for New Years (London Symphony Orchestra/John Georgiadis with Andrew Chorozinski, organ; and Elianna Stawarz, harpsichord) [15.35]
