Tag Archives: Daniel Barenboim

Vienna’s Musikverein reawakens to a defiant Beethoven Fifth

Posted on June 7, 2020 by Mark Pullinger

Daniel Barenboim/ Vienna Philharmonic Großer Saal, Musikverein, Vienna, 5th June 2020 Musical life is slowly returning to Europe, emerging from its enforced hibernation like a slightly nervous bear stretching a speculative paw out into the world. Concerts performed to empty … Continue reading →

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A love letter from Berlin as Barenboim and the Staatskapelle make Elgar their own

Posted on July 16, 2017 by Mark Pullinger

Prom 2: Barenboim/Staatskapelle Berlin **** Nobilmente (It.). Nobly, in a noble style. As a musical term, it’s almost exclusively associated with the works of Sir Edward Elgar, who first employed it in his piano transcription of the Enigma Variations. The score to his Symphony no. … Continue reading →

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Plums and turkeys: a musical voyage around 2016

Posted on December 28, 2016 by Mark Pullinger

Most people I know cannot wait to see the back of 2016. But in the year in which Brexit, Trump and the Grim Reaper were the big winners, I admit to having had a terrific twelve months. A whirl of … Continue reading →

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“Beer and beard”: Barenboim’s ruminative Brahms with the Bolívars

Posted on January 18, 2016 by Mark Pullinger

Brahms: Daniel Barenboim; Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela/ Gustavo Dudamel ** Royal Festival Hall, 17th January 2016 It was Paul Dukas who dismissed Brahms’ music as “too much beer and beard”. He would have had a field day with … Continue reading →

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Prom 44: Barenboim as Bottom? A dream of an evening with the West-Eastern Divan

Posted on August 19, 2015 by Mark Pullinger

Schoenberg/Beethoven/Tchaikovsky: West-Eastern Divan/Barenboim ***** Royal Albert Hall, 18th August 2015 “Let me play the lion too.” I hadn’t associated Daniel Barenboim with Nick Bottom from A Midsummer Night’s Dream before, but during Beethoven’s Triple Concerto, with the maestro urgently directing … Continue reading →

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