(ANSA) – ROME, 01 JAN – “This concert is really important every year, but it is even more important today, because the world is in a really difficult situation. Seeing so many musicians playing together as one community, one group of people united by the same thought and the same feeling, makes us understand that Covid is not only a health catastrophe, but also a human one, which distances us from each other. We should all take an example from this extraordinary orchestra and try to live together and united this catastrophe “. These are the words with which Maestro Daniel Barenboim closed the traditional New Year’s concert from the golden hall of the Musikverein in Vienna which this year has returned to welcome the public, with all the precautions related to the pandemic. On the podium the maestro conducted the Philharmonic orchestra: the concert was broadcast in 92 countries, in Italy on Rai2 (and in reruns on Rai5).
“We have been very lucky, we can play this live music for at least 1000 people, because the music has to be enjoyed live,” Barenboim said in front of the audience, faces covered by masks. However, Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer canceled his participation: “In a pandemically difficult situation that demands a lot from all of us, I regard attendance at the concert as a wrong signal,” he wrote on Facebook.
For Barenboim it was a return. The maestro, born in Argentina and raised in Israel, conducted the Wiener Philarmoniker today for the third time on New Year’s Eve after the 2009 and 2014 concerts. The concert opened with Josef Strauss’ Phoenix Marsch, then moved on to Champagner -Polka by Johann Strauss II, passing from the Overture of the Fledermaus operetta – again by Johann Strauss II and the inevitable arcia by Radetski and the classic Sul bel Danube blu. (HANDLE).
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