This summer Daniel Barenboim will lead the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra as its musicians come together this August for their annual workshop & summer concerts: a residency at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, a tour to major music festivals in Europe, Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde in concert (Act II and Liebestod), and the world premiere performances of two new works by Syrian-born composer Kareem Roustom and Israeli composer Ayal Adler. …
Following performances of The Tsar’s Bride at the Teatro alla Scala and concerts with the Milan house’s orchestra, Daniel Barenboim leads the German premiere of Elliott Carter’s “Instances” in two concerts with the Staatskapelle Berlin at the Philharmonie (March 18) and Konzerthaus (March 19). The Staatskapelle Berlin Music Director will also conduct Stravinsky’s Le sacre du printemps and Strauss’s Vier letzte Lieder with German soprano Dorothea Röschmann. Barenboim has authored …
On March 13, 15, and 16, Daniel Barenboim will lead the Filarmonica della Scala in three concerts at the Teatro alla Scala. Barenboim’s program with the Filarmonica opens with Nicolai’s overture to Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor, followed by Elgar’s Falstaff – Symphonic Study in C minor. Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony in E minor rounds out the program.
La Scala Music Director Daniel Barenboim conducts Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Tsar’s Bride at the Milan House from March 2 to 14. The new production by Dmitri Tcherniakov stars Olga Peretyatko as Marfa, Johannes Martin Kränzle as Griaznoj, Pavel Cernoch as Lykov, and Marina Prudenskaya as Ljubasa. Purchase tickets here.
After leading the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra in its United Arab Emirates debut last month and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in Salzburg, Daniel Barenboim returns to Berlin as soloist in Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat Major with the Staatskapelle Berlin led by Zubin Mehta. The performances, which open with Messiaen’s Et exspecto resurrectionem morturorum, take place February 10 at the Philharmonie Berlin and February 11 at the Konzerthaus Berlin. …
Daniel Barenboim will conduct the Filarmonica della Scala in a tribute performance to the Milan house’s long-time Music Director Claudio Abbado. Barenboim will lead the orchestra in a performance of the Funeral March (Adagio assai) from Beethoven’s Third Symphony. The ensemble will play to an empty house, La Scala’s traditional memorial to its most influential figures. The music will be broadcast live in the Square outside. La Scala Music Director …
Daniel Barenboim will lead the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra in its debut in United Arab Emirates on 23 January, 2014. The landmark performance sees Barenboim conducting the orchestra in Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony as well as Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante. Admission to the concert is complimentary but registration is required. Click here for details. The Orchestra’s Abu Dhabi performance is part of Barenboim and the Divan’s January concerts together. They appear at Seville’s Teatro de la Maestranza on January …
Daniel Barenboim will lead the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra in concerts this month at Seville’s Teatro de la Maestranza (19 January) and Cádiz’s Gran Teatro Falla (21 January). Daniel Barenboim founded the West-Eastern Divan in 1999 with his friend, the late Palestinian author and scholar Edward Said. Originally created at the invitation of the Kunstfest Weimar and now based in Seville, Spain, the orchestra assembles, on average, twice annually for workshops …
Daniel Barenboim marks the arrival of 2014 as he leads the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in its New Year’s Concert, a musical tradition that will be broadcast worldwide and recorded live for release by Sony Classical. Barenboim and the Orchestra present a program of music by the Strauss family and their contemporaries, as well as well-known classics and new works. Sony Classical will release a live recording of the concert on …
This December, Daniel Barenboim tours Germany with a program of piano sonatas by Franz Schubert. The Argentinean born pianist performs Schubert’s Sonata in A Major, D 664; Sonata in A minor, D 845; and Sonata in D Major, "Gasteiner" D 850. Barenboim’s tour begins at Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie ( December 9 ) before continuing on to Düsseldorf’s Tonhalle ( December 10 ), Baden-Baden’s Festspielhaus ( December 13 ), Stuttgart’s Liederhalle ( December 14 ), and Mannheim’s Rosengarten Mozartsaal ( December 18 …