Since its inception in 2009, the Shanghai New Year's Concert, founded by the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra (SSO),has gone through 15 years, with profound goals and high-standard working principle.

Maestro Riccardo Muti (83) took to the podium of the Vienna Philharmonic for the seventh - as he says - probably last time at the New Year's Concert. It was easy to understand why Muti calls the ...