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The New Year's Day concert from Vienna, Austria, on Austrian TV and BBC and BBC4, featuring the Vienna Philharmonic orchestra, was accompanied by shots of the audience interspersed with travel views taken from the sky over Austria. I wish they had included subtitles of the places, as they had done earlier in the programme when they featured buildings in Vienna and Austria.
After the dramatic Thunder and Lightning Polka, the Blue Danube was accompanied by shots along the Danube. The videos were shot in different seasons. Where does the river go? We could identify the stripey vineyards. Looking at a map of the flow of the Danube across Northern Austria, our wine expert informed us that the vineyards would be Riesling. The Danube runs East to the Black Sea.
The best colours were autumn, orange and green fields. Next we saw snow white on the rooftops. Must be winter snow scenes, with the vines asleep in the snow.
We loved a couple of the hilltop castles with turrets, walled enclosure, inner cloisters seen from overhead. We could take a photo and then to an image search for a match and the caption revealing the location and building identity on Google images.
The Blue Danube was not blue, but mostly a murky green, olive green khaki green.Where is that?
Back in the concert hall, the programme ends, as usual, each year, with the rousing Radetsky March. The audience claps in time. The conductor signals to them to start clapping, clap louder, and stop. Afterwards, according to the commentary, members of the audience are allowed to take home flowers from the displays.
The New Year's Day concert from Vienna, Austria, on Austrian TV and BBC and BBC4, featuring the Vienna Philharmonic orchestra, was accompanied by shots of the audience interspersed with travel views taken from the sky over Austria. I wish they had included subtitles of the places, as they had done earlier in the programme when they featured buildings in Vienna and Austria.
After the dramatic Thunder and Lightning Polka, the Blue Danube was accompanied by shots along the Danube. The videos were shot in different seasons. Where does the river go? We could identify the stripey vineyards. Looking at a map of the flow of the Danube across Northern Austria, our wine expert informed us that the vineyards would be Riesling. The Danube runs East to the Black Sea.
The best colours were autumn, orange and green fields. Next we saw snow white on the rooftops. Must be winter snow scenes, with the vines asleep in the snow.
We loved a couple of the hilltop castles with turrets, walled enclosure, inner cloisters seen from overhead. We could take a photo and then to an image search for a match and the caption revealing the location and building identity on Google images.
The Blue Danube was not blue, but mostly a murky green, olive green khaki green.Where is that?
Back in the concert hall, the programme ends, as usual, each year, with the rousing Radetsky March. The audience claps in time. The conductor signals to them to start clapping, clap louder, and stop. Afterwards, according to the commentary, members of the audience are allowed to take home flowers from the displays.
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Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.
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Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.
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