2012 New Year Concert: Tchaikovsky

Here is Tchaikovsky from this year's New Year Concert in Wien, Austria: Panorama und Walzer aus dem Ballet Dornröschen (Sleeping Beauty) from 1890:

King Florestan the XXIVth declares a grand christening ceremony to be held in honor of the birth of his daughter, Princess Aurora named after the dawn. An entourage of six fairies are invited to the Christening to be godmothers to the child. They are the Candide Fairy, the Coulante Fairy, the Miettes Fairy, the Canari Fairy, the Violente Fairy and—most importantly—the Lilac Fairy, who is the last to arrive (the names of fairies and their gifts vary in productions). As the fairies are happily granting gifts of honesty, grace, prosperity, song and generosity, they are suddenly interrupted by the arrival of the wicked fairy Carabosse, who is furious at the King's failure to invite her to the ceremony...

Suntory Hall in Tokyo also had the following lineup, a little too heavy on Strauss for my taste:

SYMPHONIE- ORCHESTER DER WIENER VOLKSOPER
"Geschichten aus dem Wienerwald"

Joyful orchestra performance with leading singers in addition to ballet performances. Maestro Rudner conducts and plays the violin to celebrate the New Year!

14:00 Sun, Jan 1/ 14:00 Mon, Jan 2/ 14:00 Tue, Jan 3

S: Andrea Rost,
T: Mehrzad Montazeri,
Cond & Vn: Ola Rudner,
Dance: Members of "Wiener Staatsballett"

Program:
Johann Strauss II: Geschichten aus dem Wienerwald, Walzer, op. 325
An der schönen blauen Donau, Walzer, op. 314
Robert Stolz: Wenn die kleinen Veilchen blühen,etc
S¥9,000 A¥7,500 B¥6,000 C¥5,000

Meanwhile, back in St. Petersburg, Russia, young South Korean talents are winning some major prizes at The International Tchaikovsky Competition. The International Tchaikovsky Competition is held once every four years. The first, in 1958, included two disciplines – piano and violin. Beginning with the second competition, in 1962, a cello category was added, and the vocal division was introduced during the third competition in 1966. In 1990, a fifth discipline was announced for the IX International Tchaikovsky Competition — a contest for violin makers which traditionally comes before the main competition.

In 2011, this was the result of the competition, a rather impressive and "international" show of hands:

The jurors of the XIV International Tchaikovsky Competition have announced the winners of the piano, cello, violin, and vocal categories. They are as follows:

PIANO
1st Prize, Gold Medal: Daniil Trifonov (Russia)
2nd Prize, Silver Medal: Yeol Eum Son (South Korea)

3rd Prize, Bronze Medal: Seong Jin Cho (South Korea)

4th Prize: Alexander Romanovsky (Ukraine)
5th Prize: Alexei Chernov (Russia)

Prize for the Best Performance of the Commissioned Work by Rodion Shchedrin:
Yeol Eum Son (South Korea)

Prize for the Best Performance of the Chamber Concerto:
Yeol Eum Son (South Korea)
Daniil Trifonov (Russia)


Jury Discretionary Awards:
Pavel Kolesnikov (Russia)
François-Xavier Poizat (France)

The Special Vladimir Krainev Award:
Alexander Romanovsky (Ukraine)


CELLO
1st Prize, Gold Medal: Narek Hakhnazaryan (Armenia)

2nd Prize, Silver Medal: Edgar Moreau (France)

3rd Prize, Bronze Medal: Ivan Karizna (Belarus)

4th Prize: Norbert Anger (Germany)

5th Prize: Umberto Clerici (Italy)


Prize for the Best Performance of the Commissioned Work by Krzysztof Penderecki:
Edgar Moreau (France)

Prize for the Best Performance of the Chamber Concerto:
Narek Hakhnazaryan (Armenia)

Jury Discretionary Awards:
Jakob Koranyi (Sweden)

Janina Ruh (Germany)


VIOLIN
1st Prize, Gold Medal: not awarded
2nd Prize, Silver Medal: Sergey Dogadin (Russia)

2nd Prize, Silver Medal: Itamar Zorman (Israel)
3rd Prize, Bronze Medal: Jehye Lee (South Korea)

4th Prize: Nigel Armstrong (USA)

5th Prize: Eric Silberger (USA)


Prize for the Best Performance of the Commissioned Work by John Corigliano:
Nigel Armstrong (USA)

Prize for the Best Performance of the Chamber Concerto:
Jehye Lee (South Korea)

Jury Discretionary Awards:
Aylen Pritchin (Russia)

Yu-Chien Tseng (Taiwan)


VOICE

Female
1st Prize, Gold Medal: Sun Young Seo (South Korea)

2nd Prize, Silver Medal: not awarded
3rd Prize, Bronze Medal: Elena Guseva (Russia)

4th Prize: not awarded

Male
1st Prize, Gold Medal: Jong Min Park (South Korea)

2nd Prize, Silver Medal: Amartuvshin Enkhbat (Mongolia)

3rd Prize, Bronze Medal: not awarded
4th Prize: not awarded

Jury Discretionary Awards, Female:
Oksana Davydenko (Kazakhstan)
Olga Pudova (Russia)

Jury Discretionary Awards, Male:
Dmitry Demidchik (Belarus)
Gevorg Grigorian (Russia)

The Webcast Audience Award:
Piano: Daniil Trifonov (Russia)
Cello: Narek Hakhnazaryan (Armenia)

Violin: Sergey Dogadin (Russia)

Female Voice: Elena Guseva (Russia)
Male Voice: Amartuvshin Enkhbat (Mongolia)


Mayu Kishima from Kobe, Japan was part of the competition. Here is her brilliant performance of Tchaikovsky's Valse Scherzo at the Queen Elisabeth Violin Competition in 2009.



And here I give you, Son Yeol Eum - Tchaikovsky Nocturne Op.10 in F Major: