The 2020 Vienna Philharmonic New Year's Concert takes place on January 1, 2020, under the baton of Andris Nelsons in the Musikverein in Vienna. Andris Nelsons, Music Director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Gewandhauskapellmeister of the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, has since 2010 been a musical partner of the Vienna Philharmonic. In 2020, Nelsons conducts for the first time this prestigious international concert event.
Petroc Trelawny hosts the traditional start to the year with music from the Golden Hall of the Musikverein in Vienna. This year's concert is led for the first time by the celebrated Latvian conductor Andris Nelsons, guiding the Vienna Philharmonic in an array of polkas, waltzes and gallops by the Strauss family and their contemporaries. Furthermore, to celebrate the 250th birthday of Ludwig van Beethoven, the composer's Contretanze is played alongside a ballet scene.
As always, the concert ends with the ever-popular By the Beautiful Blue Danube and the foot-stamping Radetzky March.
PROGRAMME New Year’s Concert 2020
Carl Michael Ziehrer: Die Landstreicher: Ouvertüre*
Josef Strauß:
Liebesgrüße op. 56
Liechtenstein-Marsch op. 36
Johann Strauß (Sohn):
Blumenfest-Polka op. 111
Wo die Zitronen blüh’n op. 364
Eduard Strauß: Knall und Fall op. 132
Franz von Suppé: Leichte Kavallerie: Ouvertüre
Josef Strauß: Cupido op. 81
Johann Strauß (Sohn): Seid umschlungen, Millionen! op. 443
Eduard Strauß: Eisblume op. 55
Josef Hellmesberger d. J.: Gavotte
Hans Christian Lumbye: Postillon Galop op. 16/2
Ludwig van Beethoven: 12 Contretänze (Auswahl) WoO 14
Johann Strauß (Sohn):
Freuet euch des Lebens op. 340
Tritsch-Tratsch Polka op. 214
Josef Strauß: Dynamiden op. 173