Royal Albert HallKensington Gore, London, Greater London, SW7 2AP, United Kingdom
Dates/times in London time zone
Festival: BBC PromsProgramme
| Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827) | Symphony no. 1 in C major, Op.21 | |
| Boulez, Pierre (1925-2016) | Dérive 2 | |
| Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827) | Symphony no. 2 in D major, Op.36 |
Performers
| Daniel Barenboim | Conductor |
| West-Eastern Divan Orchestra |
Daniel Barenboim directs his
first Beethoven symphony
cycle in London – and
becomes the first conductor
since Henry Wood in 1942
to survey all nine symphonies
in a single Proms season. His
dynamic West–Eastern Divan
Orchestra – famously bringing
together Arab and Israeli players to form less
‘an orchestra for peace’ than ‘an orchestra
against ignorance’ – goes far beyond the
symbolic in its goal of building bridges through
music. Expect further fireworks as Barenboim
pairs Beethoven’s revolutionary classics with
music by one of today’s senior musical figures,
the ever-innovative composer-conductor Pierre
Boulez, with whom Barenboim first collaborated
in the mid-1960s.
first Beethoven symphony
cycle in London – and
becomes the first conductor
since Henry Wood in 1942
to survey all nine symphonies
in a single Proms season. His
dynamic West–Eastern Divan
Orchestra – famously bringing
together Arab and Israeli players to form less
‘an orchestra for peace’ than ‘an orchestra
against ignorance’ – goes far beyond the
symbolic in its goal of building bridges through
music. Expect further fireworks as Barenboim
pairs Beethoven’s revolutionary classics with
music by one of today’s senior musical figures,
the ever-innovative composer-conductor Pierre
Boulez, with whom Barenboim first collaborated
in the mid-1960s.
