For the second time since 2019, the principal conductor of the world-famous Staatskapelle orchestra in the eastern German city of Dresden, Christian Thielemann, is expected to conduct the traditional New Year’s Concert from Vienna. The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra plans to perform a grand waltz and polka programme from the repertoire of the Strauss dynasty and their contemporaries in the Golden Hall of the Vienna Music Society. A work by Anton Bruckner, whose 200th birthday is celebrated in 2024, is to be performed for the first time. The orchestra plans to play a quadrille by Bruckner (1824-…