Resounding: Barenboim brings music back to the Pierre Boulez Saal

Por Hugo Shirley, 14 agosto 2020

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“the Schoenberg burst into existence as if desperate to get out”

Crítica hecha desde Pierre Boulez Saal, Berlín el 14 agosto 2020

Wagner, Siegfried Idyll

Schönberg, Sinfonía de cámara núm. 1 en mi mayor, Op.9

Boulez, Mémoriale

Beethoven, Gran fuga en si bemol mayor, Op.133 (for orchestra)

West-Eastern Divan Orchestra

Daniel Barenboim, Dirección

Joy and hope from Barenboim and the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra

Chris Garlick, 4th November

The West-Eastern Divan Orchestra are on fire with the joy of music-making to the delight of a very sympathetic and enthusiastic audience at London's Southbank Centre.

*****

Barenboim and the West-Eastern Divan return to the BBC Proms

Asher Rubenstein, 11th August

Marking 25 years of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim returns to the Proms with violin legend Anne-Sophie Mutter.

***11

Heimat in der Fremde: Barenboim und das West-Eastern Divan Orchestra

Alexandra Richter, 1st August

Barenboim feiert mit seinem israelisch-arabischen Orchester eine triumphale Rückkehr in die Konzertsäle Europas.

****1

Thomas Guggeis fédère la patrie du West-Eastern Divan Orchestra

Augustin Javel, 5th May

L'ensemble multiculturel fait montre d'une belle cohésion dans le cycle de Smetana, sous la direction d'un Thomas Guggeis (remplaçant Daniel Barenboim souffrant) impeccable de bout en bout.

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West-Eastern Divan Orchestra shows its stars at the Salzburg Festival

Alexander Hall, 13th August

Daniel Barenboim offered an unusually Germanic take on César Franck, while section leaders Michael Barenboim and Kian Soltani pulled double duty as soloists in Brahms' Double Concerto.

****1

BTHVN 2020 celebrated in Bonn by Barenboim and the WEDO

Zoltán Szabó, 17th December

A mixed performance from Bonn, but there was magic from Barenboim's fingers in the Third Piano Concerto.

***11

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Hugo Shirley

Hugo Shirley is a Berlin-based writer and musicologist. He has written widely as a critic in the UK, including for The Spectator, the Financial Times and Daily Telegraph, and has held editorial posts at both Opera and Gramophone. He was editor of 30-Second Opera (Ivy Press, 2015) and has a PhD in musicology from King's College London, where his thesis focused on Strauss and Hofmannsthal’s Die Frau ohne Schatten.