This March sees the international release of Daniel Barenboim and the Staatskapelle Berlin’s latest album, a live recording at the Philharmonie Berlin of Bruckner’s 7th Symphony. Barenboim’s latest disc captures a gripping performance of Bruckner’s 7th, bringing an insightful, theatrical interpretation of epic grandeur to one of the greatest late-Romantic symphonies. This performance also commemorates Daniel Barenboim’s week-long Bruckner cycle with the Staatskapelle in June 2010. In fact, the concert …

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Over the course of three weeks, Daniel Barenboim leads performances of three Wagner operas at the Staatsoper Berlin: Tristan und Isolde (March 10, 18, 25), Das Rheingold (March 30), and Die Walküre (April 1). A premier Wagnerian, Barenboim has led several artistic initiatives devoted to the master operatic composer, including the three-week festival “Wagner and Modernism” with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, a Wagner marathon at the Staatsoper Berlin in 2002, and a recording of Wagner’s Tannhäuser …

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Daniel Barenboim and the Staatskapelle Berlin will perform the music of Brahms, Berg, and Strauss on March 6 at Berlin’s Philharmonie and on March 7 at Berlin’s Konzerthaus. The Austro-German program opens with Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 1, featuring Romanian-born pianist Radu Lupu. Soprano Rinnat Moriach then joins the Staatskapelle for Berg’s Lulu Suite, adapted from the Austrian composer’s operatic masterpiece Lulu, which Barenboim conducts at the Staatsoper Berlin from March 31 …

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On Wednesday February 29, Daniel Barenboim conducts the Staatskapelle Berlin in a special benefit concert that supports the major renovation of the Staatsoper Unter den Linden theater. This exceptional musical event will take place at Berlin’s Philharmonie and will feature Russian soprano Anna Netrebko singing works by Strauss, Verdi, and Boito. Barenboim has served as General Music Director of the Staatsoper Berlin since 1992 and iscurrently conducting performances of Mozart’s Le …

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On February 19, Daniel Barenboim gives a matinee piano recital dedicated to the piano music of Franz Schubert at the Staatsoper im Schiller Theater. Barenboim will perform the Sonata in G Major D 894 op. 78 and the Sonata in C Minor D 958 (op. posth), keyboard works emblematic of Schubert’s full inventive and creative power. Barenboim’s program highlights the artistic dialogue between Schubert and his seemingly all-powerful role model …

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After touring with both the Staatskapelle Berlin and the Filarmonica della Scala in January and early February, Daniel Barenboim returns to the Staatsoper Berlin, where he has served as General Music Director since 1992. Beginning February 11, Barenboim leads six performances of Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro. This production by the Swiss director Thomas Langhoff features such acclaimed artists as sopranos Dorothea Roeschmann, Anna Prohaska, and Christine Schaefer. Click here for tickets to the Berlin Staatsoper’s Le nozze di Figaro.  

On February 4, Daniel Barenboim joins the Vienna Philharmonic for anexceptional concert in Salzburg at the Grosses Festspielhaus. The performance is part of the annual Salzburg Mozart Week presented by the International Mozarteum Foundation. In addition to conducting the Philharmonic in Schoenberg’s Chamber Symphony, Barenboim will also take on the role of piano soloist, performing Mozart’s Piano Concerti nos. 24 and 26. Mozart featuresprominently throughout the maestro’s schedule this February. …

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On July 10, Daniel Barenboim and the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra make their Munich debut as they perform Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6, “Pastoral” and Symphony No. 7 at Munich’s Philharmonie. The Bavarian capital is the first stop of their 2012 “Beethoven for All” European tour. Launched in August 2010, the “Beethoven for All” project presents all nine of Beethoven’s symphonies across four continents, guided by the belief that, in Barenboim’s words, …

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Daniel Barenboim, who recently began his tenure as Music Director of the Teatro alla Scala, leads the Filarmonica della Scala in concerts highlighting the music of Maurice Ravel this January both at home in Milan and on tour in Paris and Frankfurt. The performances in Milan on January 26, in Paris on January 28, and in Frankfurt on January 30 and 31 include four of Ravel’s works: Rapsodie espagnole, Alborada del gracioso, Pavane …

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After Daniel Barenboim completes his run of Don Giovanni at La Scala – his first as Music Director of the house – he heralds the New Year with two performances of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the Staatskappelle Berlin on December 31, 2011 and January 1, 2012. Barenboim then tours with the Staatskappelle as conductor and piano soloist. They perform Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 26, “Coronation,” and Bruckner’s Fourth Symphony, “Romantic,” in Munich on January …

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