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2018 - Highlights

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.

2 hours

Credits

Role Contributor
Presenter Petroc Trelawny
Director Henning Kasten
Conductor Riccardo Muti
Orchestra Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Performer Vienna State Ballet

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The concert at the Musikverein Large Hall is also broadcast on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3.

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