daniel barenboim
Celebrating Daniel Barenboim at 80The Pierre Boulez Saal became Daniel Barenboim's most recent artistic home, a unique space where leading musicians perform at his invitation, and where he himself has been heard as a soloist, as a chamber musician opposite many longtime artistic friends, and as a conductor of the Boulez Ensemble.
There is no way around Beethoven for any young pianist. In this series of masterclasses, Daniel Barenboim works on the composer’s 32 piano sonatas with students of the Barenboim-Said Akademie and other rising young artists—passing on more than 60 years of experience performing these works. The full cycle of sonatas will be released to mark Maestro Barenboim's 80th birthday this November.
Few musicians in the world are as intimately familiar with Beethoven’s piano sonatas as Daniel Barenboim, who has been exploring these works since the earliest days of his career—a musical novel in 32 chapters and an artistic cosmos in itself. The full cycle of sonatas will be released in instalments over the coming months.
Knowledge Is the Beginning tells the story of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra from its founding by Daniel Barenboim and Edward W. Said in Weimar in 1999 to the legendary concert in Ramallah six years later. With young Arab and Israeli musicians performing side by side, the orchestra embodies a vision of what could be possible in the Middle East.