{"product_id":"0888750692191-sarajevo-concert","title":"The Sarajevo Concert","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSony Classical is pleased to announce the release of ‘The Sarajevo Concert’ by the Vienna Philharmonic under Franz Welser-Möst.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn June 28th, 2014, the Vienna Philharmonic under Franz Welser-Möst played the Concert in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, commemorating the Centenary of the Assassination at Sarajevo on June 28th, 1914. The concert took place in the National Library of Sarajevo, metres from the site where Austro-Hungarian heir Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated exactly 100 years previously.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePerformance fees were waived for the concert, which featured a musical program with strong connections to the historical events of 1914-1918, inviting reflection, analysis and remembrance of an era-defining conflict. The concert was relayed free to giant screens outside the Vijećnica to a large public audience.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe New York Times wrote: “If there was a moment that captured better than any other the light and the dark in Sarajevo’s centenary weekend, marking 100 years since the events here that unleashed the demons of World War I, it came with the opening bars of Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs the music of the Vienna Philharmonic soared through the great atrium of Sarajevo’s rebuilt City Hall, and from a giant screen erected for a crowd gathered on the opposite side of the Miljacka River, it was possible for a few moments to forget the more recent outbursts of sectarian recrimination that have clouded the commemorations of the assassinations on June 28, 1914.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis invitation-only event was transmitted by EUROVISION to TV and radio broadcasters around the world as part of a co-production involving EBU Members BHRT (Bosnia \u0026amp; Herzogovina), ZDF (Germany) and France Télévisions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTracklist:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDušan Šestić: National Anthem of Bosnia and Herzegovina\u003cbr\u003eJoseph Haydn: String Quartet, op. 76\/3 (Hob. III:77), \"Emperor Quartet\", 2nd Movement\u003cbr\u003eFranz Schubert: Symphony No. 7 in B minor, D 759 (“Unfinished Symphony”)\u003cbr\u003eAlban Berg: Three Pieces for Orchestra, op. 6\u003cbr\u003eJohannes Brahms: Schicksalslied (Song of Destiny) for Choir and Orchestra op. 54 (Hölderlin)\u003cbr\u003eMaurice Ravel: La Valse, Poème choréographique pour orchestre\u003cbr\u003eLudwig van Beethoven: European Anthem (Arrangement: Herbert von Karajan)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40941297238113,"sku":"0888750692191","price":5.53,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_1302910_1132615_jpg.jpg?v=1722606591","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/0888750692191-sarajevo-concert","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}