New Year's Concert 2020

Two CDs. Sony Classical is pleased to announce the release of the recording of one of the world's most famous classical music events: the 2020 New Year's Concert with the Vienna Philharmonic under the direction of renowned conductor Andris Nelsons. There are few concerts in the world that are awaited with as much excitement as the New Year's Concert from Vienna. Directed by Andris Nelsons, the Vienna Philharmonic ushers in the New Year with a concert in the magnificent Golden Hall of the Vienna Musikverein. The concert is relayed to over ninety countries all round the world, reaching an audience of more than fifty million. The 2020 New Year's Concert will be conducted for the first time by the Latvian conductor Andris Nelsons, who first worked with the Vienna Philharmonic in October 2010 and who has been a regular and invariably welcome guest since then, not only at the orchestra's subscription concerts in the Vienna Musikverein and at the Salzburg Festival but also on tours of Asia, the United States and Europe. So far, he has appeared more than sixty times on the podium of the Vienna Philharmonic.