Sunday, January 1, 2017

Von Der Wiener Philharmoniker, Ein Prosit!

Zeer benieuwd hoe Dudamel's performance is. Ik heb de concerten beneden bekeken en kom neer op de volgende all-time ranking:

1. Von Karajan
2. Harnoncourt
3. Kleiber

Conductors

Boskovsky, concertmaster of the orchestra 1936–1979, conducted the Vienna New Year's concerts from 1955–1979.

In 1980, Lorin Maazel became the first non-Austrian conductor of the concert. The practice of choosing a different star conductor every year (and occasional star soloists) began in 1987 after seven appearances in a row by Maazel. Members of the orchestra voted to rotate conductors.

This may have occurred with the telecasts going worldwide, perhaps to make the audio and video recordings more marketable. The first of these rotating stars was Herbert von Karajan, then 78 and in frail health.
  • Austria Clemens Krauss, 1939, 1941–1945, 1948–1954
  • Austria Josef Krips, 1946–1947
  • Austria Willi Boskovsky, 1955–1979
  • United States Lorin Maazel, 1980–1986, 1994, 1996, 1999, 2005
  • Austria Herbert von Karajan, 1987
  • Italy Claudio Abbado, 1988, 1991
  • Austria Carlos Kleiber, 1989, 1992
  • India Zubin Mehta, 1990, 1995, 1998, 2007, 2015
  • Italy Riccardo Muti, 1993, 1997, 2000, 2004
  • Austria Nikolaus Harnoncourt, 2001, 2003
  • Japan Seiji Ozawa, 2002
  • Latvia Mariss Jansons, 2006, 2012, 2016
  • France Georges Prêtre, 2008, 2010
  • Argentina Daniel Barenboim, 2009, 2014
  • Austria Franz Welser-Möst, 2011, 2013
  • Venezuela Gustavo Dudamel, 2017