Brian Kay presents the traditional New Year concert of music by the Strauss family and friends, live from the Golden Hall of Vienna's Musikverein. The Vienna PO is conducted by Riccardo Muti. Music by Johann Strauss (father), whose bicentennial is this year, includes the Radetzky March, Op 228, and there's music by his great rival Josef Lanner. Plus Josef Strauss 's Music of the Spheres Waltz, Op 235, and by Johann Strauss (son) the Waltz: By the Beautiful Blue Danube,
Op 314; Champagne Polka, Op 211 and the Csardasfrom Die Fledermaus. Including at:
10.50 Twenty Minutes: Happy New Years! Richard Foster looks at how New Year has been celebrated in different ways and on different days across continents, centuries and religious schisms.