With Christmas over, the Rathausplatz becomes a New Year market selling punch, Glühwein, sausages, champagne, lucky charms, woolly hats and all the other essential paraphernalia required to face 2018. The broadcast Neujahrskonzert is the highlight. Ricardo Muti conducts; Vienna waltzes to the Blue Danube and stamps its feet to the Radetzky March.