Complete the New Year’s Concert held every January 1 in the Great Hall or Golden Hall of the Musikverein in Vienna, Austria, without performing the popular march Radetzky by Johan Strauss, It would be a “sacrilege” for those who would attend and for those who would listen to it from home.
The director of the one which took place on January 1, 2026, the French-Canadian Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Not only did he close the big musical event with this well-known piece, but he did something else: he walked down from the stage to the corridor and led the excited audience, baton in hand.
The audience rose from their seats to follow the rhythm of the conductor as he walked down the central aisle of the Musikverein. while the orchestra sounded with vigor and joy.
Yannick Nézet-Séguin It is 50 years old and has a very long history. He conducts the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Metropolitan Opera House in New York.
Sweaty, but full of energy, the musician focused on the privileged spectators participating in this cultural phenomenon which inaugurates the musical year in a capital with one of the most important orchestras in the world: the Vienna Philharmonic made world famous by the Austrian Herbert von Karajan.
Von Karajan, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Claudio Abbado, Riccardo Muti, and Mariss Jansons and Daniel Barenboim are among the best-known conductors who led the New Year’s concert. Next will be Russian Tugan Sokhiev.
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