The 2019 Vienna Philharmonic New Year's Concert will take place Jan. 1 under the baton of Christian Thielemann in the Musikverein in Vienna.
Thielemann, principal conductor of the Dresden Staatskapelle and artistic director of the Salzburg Easter Festival, has been a musical partner of the Vienna Philharmonic since 2000. The New Year's Concert 2019 represents his first time to conduct this prestigious international concert event.
The 2019 New Year's Concert will be broadcast in over 90 countries and followed by as many as 50 million TV viewers around the world. You can hear it here at 10 a.m. on New Years Day:
Program
• Carl Michael Ziehrer: Schönfeld March
• Josef Strauss: Transactionen Waltz
• Josef Hellmesberger, Jr.: Elfenreigen (Elvish Dance)
• Johann Strauss II.: Express Polka
• Johann Strauss II: Nordseebilder (North Sea Pictures)
• Eduard Strauss: Mit Extrapost (With Posthaste)
--Intermission--
• Johann Strauss II: Overture to Der Zigeunerbaron
• Josef Strauss: Die Tänzerin (The Dancers)
• Johann Strauss II: Künstlerleben (Artist's Life)
• Johann Strauss II: The Bayadere Polka
• Eduard Strauss: Opera-Soiree Polka
• Johann Strauss II: Eva Waltz
• Johann Strauss II: "Csardas" from Ritter Pasman
• Johann Strauss II: Egyptian March
• Josef Hellmesberger Jr.: Entr'acte Valse
• Johann Strauss II: Lob der Frauen (In Praise of Women)
• Josef Strauss: Sphärenklänge (Music of the Spheres)
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