New Year's Day Concert

The Vienna Philharmonic's New Year's Day concert returns to the Golden Hall of the Musikverein. Petroc Trelawny introduces the orchestra live from Vienna for Radio 3 as this orchestra sweeps through waltzes, marches, galops and polkas, led this year by Maestro Yannick Nézet Séguin. The 2026 programme blends favourites with first time discoveries: Johann Strauss's overture to Indigo and the Forty Thieves, Ziehrer's Danube Legends, Josephine Weinlich's Siren Songs and Florence Price's radiant Rainbow Waltz, alongside treasures by Lanner, Suppè, Josef and Eduard Strauss, and Hans Christian Lumbye's exuberant Copenhagen Steam Railway Galop. The concert culminates in the traditional encores - the Blue Danube and the rousing Radetzky March. Part 1. Johann Strauss Ouverture to Indigo and the Forty Thieves (Indigo und die vierzig Räuber). Carl Michael Ziehrer Danube Legends (Donausagen). Waltz, op. 446. Joseph Lanner Malapou-Galoppe. op. 148 Nr. 1. Eduard Strauss Brausteufelchen. Fast Polka, op. 154. Johann Strauss: Quadrille from The Bat (Fledermaus-Quadrille). op. 363. Johann Strauss Sr: Carnival in Paris (Der Karneval in Paris). Galop, op. 100. Interval. Part 2. von Suppè: Overture to the operetta The Beautiful Galatea (Die schöne Galathée). Weinlich: Siren Songs (Sirenen Lieder). Polka mazur, op. 13. Josef Strauss: Woman's Dignity (Frauenwürde). Waltz, op. 277. Johann Strauss: Diplomat's Polka (Diplomaten-Polka). Polka française, Op. 448. Florence Price: Rainbow Waltz. Lumbye: Københavns Jernbane-Damp-Galop. (Copenhagen Steam Railway Galop). Johann Strauss: Roses from the South (Rosen aus dem Süden). Waltz, op. 388; Egyptian March (Egyptischer Marsch). op. 335. Josef Strauss: Palms of Peace (Friedenspalmen). Waltz, op. 207. Encores.Fahrbach: Circus (Zirkus). Fast Polka, op. 110. Johann Strauss: The Beautiful Blue Danube (An der schönen blauen Donau). Waltz, op. 314. Johann Strauss Sr: Radetzky-March. op. 228.