New Year’s Eve concert
See out the old year with the Berliner Philharmoniker

The Berliner Philharmoniker and chief conductor Kirill Petrenko will bring this year to a close with more of a bang than a whimper.  

Star pianist Daniil Trifonov opens the New Year’s Eve concert with Johannes Brahms’ Second Piano Concerto, an arresting blend of high drama and lyrical tenderness. After the interval, the powerful and festive prelude from Richard Wagner’s opera Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg follows. The concert concludes with two lavishly-orchestrated dance works by Richard Strauss of a contrasting nature: the charming waltzes from Der Rosenkavalier and Salome’s Dance, with its exhibitionistic, almost brutal sensuality. Why tip-toe into 2025 when you can be propelled by a tsunami of vengeance?!

You can experience the programme in a number of ways: directly in the Philharmonie, as a live broadcast in the Digital Concert Hall, on Arte or Radio 3, or in one of many cinemas near you.

Digital Concert Hall

Tue 31 December 2024, from 17:30
30 minutes before the concert begins, we offer you a special accompanying programme.

Wed 1 January 2025, from 8:00
Rerun of the recording from the previous evening

On the radio and TV

Tue 31 December 2024: Arte and Radio 3 from RBB broadcast live from 17:30

In cinemas

The concert, including the accompanying programme, will also be broadcast in many cinemas in Germany and around the world.