Daniel Barenboim
Daniel Barenboim, Tate ModernSaturday, 09 April 2011
It had all the hallmarks of being an almighty car crash of an event. Barenboim? Chopin? Turbine Hall? You might as well have dumped the piano at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. Actually, acoustically, it wasn't quite that bad. It sounded as if... Read more... |
Staatskapelle Berlin, Barenboim, Royal Festival HallMonday, 01 February 2010
The returns queue gets longer and so does the wait – considerably longer than the 69 minutes of programmed music in this the second of the Daniel Barenboim Beethoven/Schoenberg series. But what a satisfying two–course meal it was: Schoenberg’s “... Read more... |
Staatskapelle Berlin, Barenboim, Royal Festival HallFriday, 29 January 2010
Anyone who can sell out four concerts of Beethoven and Schoenberg, even if it's only half-scary Schoenberg, surely looms large in the public imagination. Daniel Barenboim is a great humanitarian figure, and has been a thought-provoking... Read more... |
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