New Year's Concert 2025 DVD

DVD Edition.

Few concerts in the world are awaited with as much anticipation as the New Year's Concert in Vienna. Under the direction of Riccardo Muti, the Vienna Philharmonic welcomes the New Year with a concert in the magnificent Golden Hall of the Musikverein in Vienna.

In his seventh time at the helm of this prestigious event, Riccardo Muti conducts the orchestra in a program that celebrates the 200th anniversary of the birth of Johann Strauss II, exploring new perspectives on the musical world of the Strauss family. Riccardo Muti has played an exceptional role in the history of the Vienna Philharmonic for more than 50 years. The artistic collaboration with Maestro Muti began in 1971. Since then, he has conducted more than 500 concerts with the orchestra, including six New Year's Concerts, Philharmonic subscription concerts, commemorative concerts, annual orchestral concerts at the Salzburg Festival, guest performances and tours, and numerous opera productions. He has been an honorary member of the Vienna Philharmonic since 2011.

The Vienna New Year's Concert has been an annual event for more than eight decades, since 1939, broadcast on radio and television and reaching millions of viewers in more than 90 countries worldwide. The concert has previously been conducted by world-renowned maestros such as Herbert von Karajan, Lorin Maazel, Claudio Abbado, Carlos Kleiber, Zubin Mehta, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Seiji Ozawa, Mariss Jansons, Franz Welser-Möst, Gustavo Dudamel and others. The Vienna Philharmonic, as a musical ambassador for Austria, sends people around the world a New Year's greeting in a spirit of hope, friendship and peace with the cheerful and light-hearted, yet nostalgic and profound music from the vast repertoire of the Johann Strauss family and their contemporaries.