Neujahrskonzert 2025 / New Year's Concert 2025 / Concert du Nouvel An 2025 (Live)

The Vienna Philharmonic’s New Year’s Concert, fuelled by the irresistible dances of the Strauss Family and their followers, continues to radiate optimism even in troubled times. Riccardo Muti has presided over the festivities more often than any of his colleagues. The veteran Italian conductor’s innate lyricism and unshakeable belief in the sanctity of rhythmic precision are mirrored to perfection by an orchestra at one with the music’s joie de vivre. Listen, for instance, to the symphonic power of Josef Strauss’ Transactionen Waltz, charming and dramatic by turns, the uncanny lightness of Johann Strauss II’s famous Tritsch-Tratsch Polka, or Ferdinandus, a fizzing number by the Waltz King’s forgotten contemporary Constanze Geiger.