MEMO FLORA
New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Concert

Wolfgang Amadé Mozart 
Overture to the opera 'La finta giardiniera', KV 196

Ferdinand Ries
The Last Rose of Summer (2nd movement from the Sextet for Piano and Strings in C major, Op. 100)

Nikolas Kapustin
3rd movement from the Concerto for Violin, Piano and Strings, Op. 105

Takashi Yoshimatsu
3rd movement from the Piano Concerto Memo Flora, Op. 67

Also featuring works by: Johann Strauss Sohn, Carl Zeller, Franz Lehár, Émile Waldteufel u.a. 

At the New Year’s Concert of the Vienna Philharmonic, there was once a charming tradition of decorating the stage with flowers from the Italian city of San Remo. Even more enchanting is the way CAMERATA now brings flowers to life through sound at its New Year’s concerts. Musical floral bouquets will blossom, including Mozart’s overture to the opera La finta giardiniera, Tchaikovsky’s Waltz of the Flowers from The Nutcracker, Johann Strauss’ Roses from the South waltz, and the playful Bouquet Quadrille. The musical bouquet also features Lehár’s magnificent waltz Wild Roses and the timeless melody Give Me Roses in Tyrol from Zeller’s operetta The Bird Seller, presented in an instrumental version.

Japanese piano "rising star" Hayato Sumino will perform a movement from the piano concerto Memo Flora by his compatriot Takashi Yoshimatsu. Together with Russian violinist and conductor Alexander Sitkovetsky and the musicians of CAMERATA Salzburg, he will also make Ferdinand Ries’ romantic arrangement of the Irish air The Last Rose of Summer bloom once more.