New Year's Day Concert - 2009 - Highlights

From the Musikverein in Vienna, the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra perform the annual celebratory concert of waltzes, polkas, marches, conducted for the first time by Argentinean-Israeli pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim. Extensive highlights from the complete concert which took place this morning featuring works by Johann Strauss I and II, Joseph Strauss, Joseph Hellmesburger Jr. and Joseph Haydn marking the 200th anniversry of his death; and to accompany some of the works there are performances by the Ballet of the Vienna State Opera and Volksoper. The presenter is Brian Kay.