The New Year's Eve concert opens with a suite of instrumental pieces from the opéra-ballet Les Indes galantes fromRameau. Menahem Pressler plays Mozart's Piano Concerto in A major, K. 488. The musicians ring in the New Year in a lively way with Slavic strains: an orchestral suite from Zoltán Kodály's charming folk opera Háry János and a selection from the popular Slavonic Dances by Dvořák.