Viennese flair for a New Year of music
A Viennese New Year is in store with the region's premiere orchestra when Birmingham's CBSO take to the stage tomorrow.
Conductor Martin Yates and tenor James Edwards will lead the orchestra through a Viennese-inspired programme at the Symphony Hall.
A CBSO spokesman said: "Vienna, city of my dreams…as sweet as a slice of sachertorte and as fizzy as Champagne, it simply wouldn't be New Year without the music of Johann Strauss and friends.
" There'll be elegant waltzes, playful polkas, and good old-fashioned operetta romance from tenor James Edwards. So let the CBSO and maestro Martin Yates whirl you back to a more glamorous age, as we raise a glass to the start of another great year of music."
The programme will include Johann Strauss II's Tritsch-Tratsch Polka, Annen-Polka, Blue Danube Waltz and Thunder and Lightning Polka.
Other highlights will linclude Suppé's Overture – Poet and Peasant; Lehár's Gold and Silver Waltz and Girls were Made to Love and Kiss; Kreisler's Viennese Rhapsodic Fantasietta; Heuberger's The Opera Ball – Overture & Im Chambre Separee; Waldteufel's Skaters' Waltz; Tauber's My Heart and I; Romberg's The Student Prince – Serenade and Sieczynski's Vienna, City of my Dreams.
Tickets are available from the venue, priced £12.50 and £40, at www.thsh.co.uk
The CBSO will also be in action on Wednesday and Thursday with concerts that are part of the Birmingham Beethoven Cycle. They will play Beethoven's Symphonies Four and Five and tickets are also available at www.thsh.co.uk
