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Jane Jones marks New Year's Day with a Viennese celebration.
Every New Year's Eve and New Year's Day, the city of Vienna gives itself over to celebrating. There's the Grand Ball at the Hofburg Palace and galas held in the City Hall and Vienna's top hotels. And New Year's Day is greeted in classic fashion with the legendary Vienna Philharmonic's annual concert, now also broadcast on a big screen in front of City Hall.
Jane Jones gets into the seasonal spirit and brings you an unrivalled Viennese celebration with the Vienna Philharmonic under a succession of brilliant conductors and music from the city's most famous musical sons - and a few other great composers.
Johann Strauss II: Die Fledermaus – Overture
Andre Previn conducts the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concerto No.12 in A major
Piano: Maurizio Pollini
Maurizio Pollini conducts the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Richard Wagner: Lohengrin - Prelude to Act III
Claudio Abbado conducts the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Johann Strauss II: By the Beautiful Blue Danube
Daniel Barenboim conducts the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Giuseppe Verdi: Rigoletto, 'Libiamo ne'lieti calici'
Rolando Villazon, Anna Netrebko
Carlo Rizzi conducts the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and the Vienna State Opera Chorus
Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky: Sleeping Beauty – Waltz
Mariss Jansons conducts the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Johann Strauss I: Radetzky March
Carlos Kleiber conducts the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Joseph Haydn: Sinfonia Concertante in Bb major
Rainer Kuchl, Walter Lehmayer, Franz Bartolomey, Michael Werba
Leonard Bernstein conducts the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Bedrich Smetana: The Bartered Bride - Dance of the Comedians
James Levine conducts the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Johann Strauss II: Morning Papers
Willi Boskovsky conducts the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Franz von Suppe: Morning, Noon & Night in Vienna - Overture
John Eliot Gardiner conducts the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra