Live from Berlin.
The Philharmonie is the magnificent setting for tonight's concert. Built as the centrepiece of Berlin's cultural district, it is the permanent home of one of the world's great orchestras, the Berlin Philharmonic.
Their music director for life,
Herbert von Karajan , has made a regular feature of popular concerts for New Year's Eve. Karajan has encouraged young prodigies at the start of their careers and tonight the 16-year-old Russian Yevgeny Kissin is playing what is probably the most popular concerto ever written, TCHAIKOVSKY'S First Piano Concerto. The concert also includes a work written by PROKOFIEV when he, too, was at the beginning of his career - the Classical Symphony.
Presentation by ZDF GERMAN TELEVISION