Nothing evokes a Viennese New Year’s ball quite like Strauss waltzes. Hear the famous Blue Danube and other Strauss family pieces in this effervescent performance from New Year’s Eve 1984.

J. STRAUSS II (1825–99)
Kaiser-Walzer (Emperor Waltzes), Op. 437 (1889)
Tritsch-Tratsch-Polka, Op. 214 (1858)
Perpetuum mobile, musikalischer Scherz (Perpetuum Mobile, Musical Joke), Op. 257 (1862)
An der schönen blauen Donau (On the Beautiful Blue Danube), Waltz, Op. 314 (1866–67)

J. STRAUSS (1804–49)
Radetzky March (1848)