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Chopin does not frequently figure in Daniel Barenboim’s piano repertoire, and I suspect that this composer’s idiom is an acquired rather than natural affinity for
You cannot deny the big-boned exuberance and animal energy Jacqueline du Pré brings to the Schumann Cello Concerto. Subtle she ain’t. Abetted by Daniel Barenboim’s
The Barenboim/Celibidache combination proves a potent one in Schumann’s Piano Concerto. In the first movement Barenboim’s light touch and freely elastic rubato make for a
Daniel Barenboim’s 1964 Westminster recording of Beethoven’s Third Piano Concerto is a more incisive, compact interpretation than either his more familiar traversal with Otto Klemperer
Schumann’s Kinderszenen translates into English as “Scenes from Childhood”, yet Daniel Barenboim’s absorbing, at times over-intense interpretation might qualify for the subtitle “Working out one’s
Neither of these recordings is a sonic paradigm, although I prefer the full-bodied mono engineering of Barenboim’s 1958 Moonlight Sonata to the relatively spiky and
It’s interesting to hear the stylistic consistency that marks both the teenaged Richard Strauss’ assured, exuberant First Horn Concerto and the aged composer’s Duett-Concertino and
Daniel Barenboim first recorded Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations for Westminster at age 16, and again in his late 30s for Deutsche Grammophon. His 1991 remake, reissued
Several pianists have recorded the Beethoven Concerto cycle no less than three times, including Claudio Arrau, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Alfred Brendel, and Arthur Rubinstein. Daniel Barenboim’s
Here’s an overview of Brazilian pop tunes ranging from samba and bossa nova to Tropocalia. Composer Bebu Silvetti serves them up in pleasant, uneventful, Muzak-worthy
