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The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra perform their traditional New Year's Day concert.

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Petroc Trelawny

Henning Kasten

Riccardo Muti

Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

Vienna State Ballet

New Year's Day Concert: 2018 - Highlights

2018 - Highlights

01/01/2018

BBC Two - New Year's Day Concert, 2018 - Highlights

Riccardo Muti takes up the baton for the traditional polkas, marches and waltzes.

A chance to enjoy highlights from the live concert in which Riccardo Muti takes up the baton for polkas, marches and waltzes composed by the Strauss family and contemporaries.

Another chance to take your place in the best seats in the house for the New Year's Day Concert from Vienna 2018. Petroc Trelawny is on hand to guide the viewer through the sparkling polkas, marches and waltzes composed by the Strauss family and their contemporaries, including all the traditional favourites. 

Italian conductor Riccardo Muti takes up the baton of this hugely popular concert for the fifth time, in the spectacular setting of Vienna's Musikverein. Soloists from the Vienna State Ballet perform at Eckartsau Castle and the Court Pavillion at Hietzing Station to mark 100 years since the death of the great Austrian architect Otto Wagner.

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