As in previous years, the Vienna Philharmonic’s 2024 New Year’s Concert has been released by Sony Classical in both audio and video formats. Under the baton of Christian Thielemann no fewer than nine of the works from the foot-tapping world of the waltz and polka are featured for the first time on the programme of what remains the most popular event in the world of classical music.

There are few concerts in the world that are awaited with as much excitement as the New Year’s Concert from Vienna. This year, it was broadcast to over 90 countries all round the world, reaching an audience of millions of people.

The conductor at the 2024 New Year’s Concert was Christian Thielemann, the principal conductor of the Dresden Staatskapelle and Daniel Barenboim’s successor at the Berlin State Opera. Following up their benchmark recording of the complete Beethoven symphonies, the Vienna Philharmonic and Christian Thielemann began work during the pandemic on a complete recording of the symphonies of Anton Bruckner that were released as a box set in 2023 to mark the bicentenary of the composer’s birth in this year. For the first time in the history of the gramophone it included all of the composer’s eleven symphonies under one conductor. Bruckner was also honoured at the 2024 New Year’s Concert with the first performance at this event of his "Quadrille op. 121."