Vienna Royal Symphony Orchestra presents its 2027 New Year Symphony Concert in the spirit of the Vienna New Year’s Concert – Strauss waltzes and polkas, favourite overtures and Chinese classics, with the Radetzky March to finish.
The tour’s conductors are music director Sergei Polianichko, founder of the Horn Orchestra of Russia, who has conducted the Russian National Orchestra and the Svetlanov State Symphony Orchestra, and guest conductors Daniel Gil, artistic director of the Caracas Municipal Symphony Orchestra, and Chilean-born David Navarro-Turres.
The heart of the programme is the Strauss family’s best-loved music – Voices of Spring, the Emperor Waltz, The Blue Danube and Tales from the Vienna Woods, the Annen, Tritsch-Tratsch and Thunder and Lightning polkas – alongside Rossini, Offenbach’s Can-Can, Shostakovich and Brahms, and orchestral versions of Chinese classics.
Full programme
- Johann Strauss II – Die Fledermaus, overture
- Johann Strauss II – Annen Polka
- Johann Strauss II – Voices of Spring, waltz
- Johann Strauss II – Tritsch-Tratsch Polka
- Johann Strauss II – Emperor Waltz
- Chinese folk song – Jasmine Flower
- Liu Chi – My Motherland
- Johann Strauss II – Persian March
- Dmitri Shostakovich – Waltz No. 2
- Gioachino Rossini – The Barber of Seville, overture
- Zheng Lu and Ma Hongye – Good News from Beijing to the Borderland
- Johann Strauss II – Tik-Tak Polka
- Jacques Offenbach – Can-Can
- Johann Strauss II – Thunder and Lightning Polka
- Li Huanzhi – Spring Festival Overture
- Johann Strauss II – The Blue Danube, waltz
- Johann Strauss II – Tales from the Vienna Woods, waltz
- Johannes Brahms – Hungarian Dance No. 5
- Georges Bizet – Carmen, overture (encore)
- Johann Strauss I – Radetzky March (encore)