Music of the Week: January 1, 2026: Anthony Hopkins – And the Waltz Goes On
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Music of the Week
And the Waltz Goes On
Anthony Hopkins
Music of the Week, January 2, 2026
And the Waltz Goes On
Anthony Hopkins
In Europe, it is customary to start the New Year with a waltz. Many concert halls are filled with the music of Strauss and Chopin and other great waltz composers, and everybody is charmed by the traditional New Year’s Concert by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.
The waltz we have chosen for our first Music of the Week in 2026 is rather unique. It was composed by none other than Oscar-winning star and actor Sir Anthony Hopkins, who, throughout his life, has been something of a “closeted” composer.
“I’ve been composing music all my life and if I’d been clever enough at school I would like to have gone to music college. As it was, I had to settle for being an actor.”
Hopkins composed this waltz at the age of 26, but it only premiered almost 50 years later when André Rieu and his orchestra played it in Vienna in 2012.
And like the waltz that “goes on,” so our planet Earth swings forward into yet another pirouette around the sun. Let it be a happy dance!
Sir Anthony Hopkins' Waltz (subtitled)
Links
How We Met: André Rieu & Sir Anthony Hopkins (The Independent)
“One Day I Will Show You” – Sir Anthony Hopkins on Childhood Moments That Forged a Big-Screen Legend (The Late Show with Stephen Colbert)
Original video: Sir Anthony Hopkins’ Waltz (subtitled) (YouTube)
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I did not know Hopkins composed. Great choice, as always. 😃
My suggestions today come in the form of 1.) a sort of “you are here” and 2.) a prayer (as Catherine says: “If you can face it, God can fix it.”).
1). Wo alle Straßen enden: https://youtu.be/ZzIVyezTXcM?si
2.) Ein Bißchen Frieden (1982 Eurovision song contest winner): https://youtu.be/hp_b-095yPc?si
The first has a poetical English translation in the video itself, which I believe was changed from a more literal original translation when it was finally reposted. Very clearly about the horrors of war, it received the YTube banhammer for a time in 2020. Haunting, yet beautiful and re-listenable, it’s too easy to connect with the soldiers’ feeling (more a knowing, I’d say) of being forsaken, as it were, though by the world rather than the Divine. From the description: “The first verse and the melody of the ‘Marsch der Verdammten’ (March of the Damned), better known as ‘Wo alle Straßen enden’, was written by Horst-Heinz Henning in the 50s or 60s. The other four stanzas were added by Karl Sternau.” (He’s the content creator, “Sing with Karl”.). Despite not being a “real” war song, it’s lyrical content makes it all the more so: “Wer weiß wie lange noch für mich die helle Sonne scheint.”
The second, of course, is just as beautiful and far more light-hearted, and is about something the world needs a lot more of – sooner, rather than later. As an aside, I first heard this when it was re-aired as part of the 50th anniversary of the song contest – despite no knowledge of German, I knew instantly what the words meant… it was the reason I bought their best of sets. And anyone who still finds the German language to be “rough” must have never heard this one. Lyrics and translation are here: https://www.diggiloo.net/?1982de
Finally, with everything seeming to be upside-down, I have recently wondered why, aside from explanations previously given, we celebrate the new year now rather than at the beiginning of Spring. I have a mirror pair of song suggestions which I’ll probably post around then. I have also wondered if Frieden and Freedom are cognates, independently of their individual meanings… and if they were once one and the same…. because the more I consider each, the more they seem to be synonymous rather than “false friends”. 🤔 But then, I’m clearly a fool.
To Wisdom, Frieden, and Freedom – Happy New Year.
Tried to watch, only to be reminded that youtube will not longer let me access unless I log in. Having read their terms and conditions and knowing google, not doing. So I forwarded to Ulrike for viewing. Thanks so much for posting, Brad.
Exquisite!