Bachtrack logo
What's on
All eventsConcertsOperaDanceKids eventsMasterclassesCompetitionsFestivals
Reviews
All reviewsConcert reviewsOpera reviewsDance reviews
Articles
All articlesFeaturesInterviewsOpinionPlaylists
News
Video
Video homeAll videoStreamed eventsConcertsOperaDanceKids eventsMasterclassesPublishers
Site
About usContact usLink to usConditions of useCookiesPrivacy
Young artists
Travel
EventsReviewsArticlesVideo

Strauss' Don Quixote shines alongside a peace message in Stockholm

By Marco Rep, 29 April 2017
Loading, please wait...
See full listing
Reviewed at Konserthuset Stockholm: Stora Salen, Stockholm on 28 April 2017
Programme
Mozart, Symphony no. 41 in C major, "Jupiter”, K551
Strauss R., Don Quixote, Op.35
Performers
West-Eastern Divan Orchestra
Daniel Barenboim, Conductor
Kian Soltani, Cello
Yulia Deyneka, Viola
More Concert reviews
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
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
Resounding: Barenboim brings music back to the Pierre Boulez Saal
Hugo Shirley, 14th August
The West-Eastern Divan Orchestra presents a superb programme executed with power and urgency to herald the return of public music-making at the Pierre Boulez Saal.
*****
Bluster and conviction from Argerich and Barenboim
Mark Thomas, 12th August
There was vibrancy and subtlety in these cultured performances of Schubert and Lutosławski, with Martha Argerich still showing how it’s done with ‘that’ Tchaikovsky concerto.
****1
More reviews...
Read reviews of
Daniel BarenboimDon Quixote, Op.35Kian SoltaniRichard StraussSymphony no. 41 in C major, "Jupiter”, K551West-Eastern Divan OrchestraWolfgang Amadeus MozartYulia Deyneka
Related articles
Loading image...
High performance: Kian Soltani on his Stradivari cello
Loading image...
Daniel Barenboim announces Parkinson’s diagnosis
Loading image...
Bachtrack top ten: Richard Strauss
Loading image...
From Salzburg, with love: Hans Graf bids farewell to Singapore with Mozart and Salieri
Marco Rep
Marco Rep
Marco studies musicology at Uppsala University in Sweden and has a passion for the symphonic repertoire, lieder and opera. Besides music, he is highly interested in languages and philosophy and swims quite a lot. Possible PhD topic? Mahler, Sibelius and Shostakovich rank highest on the list.