To herald the New Year, our stylish Viennese Gala this year takes a trip from Vienna to Kyiv with BSO Chief Conductor, Kirill Karabits, folk singer, Ruslana Lotsman and a selection of specially arranged traditional Ukrainian folk songs. Music by Mussorgsky and Rimsky-Korsakov and three of Tchaikovsky’s most famous ballet waltzes from Sleeping Beauty, The Nutcracker and Swan Lake, sit alongside favourites by Johann Strauss II.

Works and composers

Rimsky-Korsakov Christmas Eve Polonaise
Tchaikovsky Three Waltzes from The Sleeping Beauty, The Nutcracker and Swan Lake
Mussorgsky Gopak from Sorochintsy Fair
J Strauss II The Emperor Waltz
Traditional Ukrainian Folk Carols New Joy Has Become, Dark is the Night, Let Me in the House, With White Snow, Malanka
J Strauss II Thunder and Lightning Polka
J Strauss II On The Beautiful Blue Danube
J Strauss II A Thousand and One Nights Waltz
J Strauss II March from the Orient Waltz