Out Now: Sony Classical Releases 2026 New Year’s Concert with The Vienna Philharmonic and Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Sony Classical Releases The 2026 New Year’s Concert
with The Vienna Philharmonic and Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Album Release Dates:
Digital: Out Now
CD: Out Today
DVD and Blu-Ray: January 30, 2026
Available Now
The most famous event in the world of classical music will be available on Sony Classical in a digital format, on 2 CDs, on vinyl, on DVD and on Blu-ray
Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducted the concert for the very first time.
On January 1, 2026, Maestro Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducted the Vienna Philharmonic’s New Year’s Concert from the world-famous Golden Hall of the Vienna Musikverein. It was his first appearance at this event. There are few concerts in the world that are awaited with as much excitement as the New Year’s Concert from Vienna, which is broadcast to over 150 countries and watched by more than 50 million viewers.
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, who is the music director of both the Metropolitan Opera in New York and of the Philadelphia Orchestra, can look back on a long association with the Vienna Philharmonic. His program for the 2026 New Year’s Concert included not only popular pieces such as Roses from the South and the Fledermaus Quadrille but also five rarities, all of which were heard for the first time in this setting. Among them are works by the Black American composer Florence Price (1887–1953) and by Josephine Weinlich (1848–87), who founded the first all-women’s orchestra in Europe.
The annual New Year’s Concert has been a major event in the musical calendar for more than eight decades. Starting in 1939, it is now broadcast on television and on the radio and reaches millions of viewers and listeners all over the world. Among the internationally acclaimed conductors who have appeared on the podium at this event have been Herbert von Karajan, Lorin Maazel, Claudio Abbado, Carlos Kleiber, Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Muti, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Seiji Ozawa, Mariss Jansons, Franz Welser-Möst and Gustavo Dudamel. As Austria’s musical ambassadors, the members of the Vienna Philharmonic extend their New Year greetings to the whole world in a spirit of hope, friendship and peace by performing lively, carefree and at the same time nostalgic and more serious music by members of the Strauß family and their contemporaries.
Program of the 2026 New Year’s Concert
Johann Strauss II Overture to the operetta Indigo and the Forty Thieves
Carl Michael Ziehrer Legends of the Danube. Waltz op. 446*
Joseph Lanner Malapou Galops op. 148/1*
Eduard Strauss Brausteufelchen. Polka schnell op. 154*
Johann Strauss II Fledermaus Quadrille op. 363
Johann Strauss I The Carnival of Paris. Galop op. 100
Franz von Suppè Overture to the operetta The Fair Galatea
Josephine Weinlich Siren Songs. Polka mazur op. 13 (arr. W. Dörner)*
Josef Strauss Women’s Dignity Waltz op. 277
Johann Strauss II Diplomats’ Polka. Polka française op. 448
Florence Price Rainbow Waltz (arr. W. Dörner)*
Hans Christian Lumbye Copenhagen Steam Railway Galop
Johann Strauss II Roses from the South. Waltz op. 388
Johann Strauss II Egyptian March op. 335
Josef Strauss Olive Branch Waltz, op. 207
Encores:
Philipp Fahrbach Circus, Quick Polka, Op. 110
Johann Strauss II The Blue Danube, Waltz, Op. 314
Johann Strauss I Radetzky March, Op. 228
* for the first time at a New Year’s Concert