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Music at the turn of the year: concerts on New Year’s Eve and New Year | NDR.de

Status: December 30, 2020 1:31 p.m.

Are you looking for musical accompaniment at the turn of the year? Here are some tips for concerts that you can watch live from the sofa.

by Lisa Hentschel

Concerts on New Years Eve

On Thursday, Kirill Petrenko will conduct Spanish-Brazilian sounds from the Berlin Philharmonic live for the radio audience. On the program of the New Year’s Eve concert of Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra there are works by Manuel de Falla, Joaquín Rodrigo and Mozart Camargo Guarnieri. To hear off 6 p.m. on NDR culture.

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Kirill Petrenko conducts Spanish-Brazilian sounds from the Berlin Philharmonic live for the radio audience. more




Already from 4 p.m. stream the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra a performance of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony on hers website. The theater and opera director Christoph Marthaler staged the fourth movement for the project “Beethoven’s 9th Symphony. A symphony without a choir. In three movements and one action”, led by chief conductor Sylvain Cambreling. The concert and Marthaler’s action will then be available as a video.

New Years Concerts

Riccardo Muti and the Wiener Philharmoniker start the new year with waltz melodies – this time without an audience. From 11.15 a.m. listen to the live broadcast from the Great Hall of the Vienna Musikverein on NDR Kultur. In addition to works from the well-known Strauss repertoire, unknown or seldom performed compositions by contemporaries such as Carl Millöcker, Carl Zeller or Karl Komzák are on the program.

In the neighboring country, at the New Year’s concert of Symphony Orchestra St. Gallen, is also “(almost) everything waltz”. The Livestream to start at starts at 17 o’clock. Sascha Goetzel (direction and moderation), Tatjana Schneider (soprano) and Shea Owens (baritone) will be there.

In the concert series “Sofakonzert” of the Jazz Clubs Hannover play at sleep-friendly times Max Mutzke and the pianist Marialy Pacheco. The Livestream starts from 19 o’clock and it’s free. However, there is the possibility of donating money to the “Initiative Musik”, which supports musicians affected by the crisis.

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The Italian conductor Riccardo Muti conducts the New Year's Concert of the Vienna Philharmonic.  © picture alliance / dpa Photo: Hans Punz

Riccardo Muti and the Vienna Philharmonic start the new year with waltz melodies – this time without an audience. more




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