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New Year's Day 2025

Live New Year's Day Concert given by the Vienna Philharmonic and conductor Riccardo Muti.

The annual New Year鈥檚 Day concert given by the Vienna Philharmonic in the glittering Golden Hall of the Vienna Musikverein. Enjoy the swirling waltzes, rousing marches uplifting polkas as Petroc Trelawny introduces the concert live for Radio 3. Led from the podium by conductor Riccardo Muti for the seventh time. 2025 marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Johann Strauss so it鈥檚 no surprise his works are even more in evidence this year. The programme mixes old favourites with new discoveries which celebrate, amongst other things: Jolly Brothers, Demolition Men and Village Swallows as well as the famous Blue Danube. The orchestra say the concert is a New Year鈥檚 day greeting to people all over the world in the spirit of hope, friendship and peace at the start of 2025.

Vienna Philharmonic
Riccardo Muti (conductor)
Broadcast live from the Musikverein, Vienna

Presented by Petroc Trelawny

Part 1
Johann Strauss Sr: Freedom March op. 226
Josef Strauss: Village Swallows of Austria, Waltz, op. 164
Johann Strauss: Demolition Men鈥檚 Polka, op. 269
Johann Strauss: Lagoon Waltz op. 411
Eduard Strauss: Airy and Fragrant, Polka, op. 206

Interval

Part 2
Johann Strauss: Overture to The Gypsy Baron
Johann Strauss: Accelerations Waltz, op. 234
Joseph Hellmesberger: Jolly Brothers March from The Violet Girl
Constanze Geiger: Ferdinandus Waltz (Arrangement: Wolfgang D枚rner)
Johann Strauss: Either Or! Polka, op. 403
Josef Strauss: Transactions Waltz, op. 184
Johann Strauss: Annen-Polka. op. 117
Johann Strauss: Tritsch-Tratsch Polka op. 214
Johann Strauss: Wine, Women and Song, Waltz, op. 333

Encores
Johann Strauss: The Bayad猫re, Polka, op. 351
Johann Strauss: The Blue Danube, Waltz, op. 314
Johann Strauss Sr: Radetzky-March. op. 228

Release date:

3 hours, 29 minutes

On radio

New Year's Day 2025 09:30

Broadcast

  • New Year's Day 2025 09:30