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New Year's Day Concert

2020 - Highlights

Duration: 1 hour, 59 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC FourLatest broadcast: on BBC Four HD

Petroc Trelawny is our host for this year’s traditional start to the year with musical highlights from the Golden Hall of the Musikverein in Vienna.

This year’s concert is led for the first time by celebrated Latvian conductor Andris Nelsons, guiding the Vienna Philharmonic in an array of polkas, waltzes and gallops by the Strauss family and their contemporaries.

As always, the concert will end with the ever-popular By the Beautiful Blue Danube and the foot-stamping Radetzky March.

The concert is broadcast to some 50 million viewers in over 90 countries. Show less

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