![]() ![]() One of the joys of the Barenboim/Klemperer cycle is its occasional unpredictability: rock-solid readings that none the less incorporate a sense of 'today we try it this way'.ĭaniel Barenboim Plays Chopin, The Warsaw Recital 'Rarely on record has the slow movement of the C major Concerto been played with so natural a sense of concentrated calm, the whole thing profoundly collected on the spiritual plane. 'Throughout the set the playing is exceptionally musical and lively, responding to this glorious music as generously as one could wish.'ĭaniel Barenboim pf / New Philharmonia Orchestra / Otto Klemperer (Warner) one can understand Deutsche Gramophone's desire to give the best of this Barenboim Bruckner cycle another airing.'ĭaniel Barenboim pf / Jacqueline Du Pré vc / Pinchas Zuckerman vln (Warner) 'In the symphony, Barenboim is witty, affectionate and vital and the Chicago playing is sumptuous without in any way being bland or suffocating. Jessye Norman sop / Yvonne Minton contr / David Rendall ten / Samuel Ramey bass / Chicago Symphony Chorus / Chicago Symphony Orchestra / Daniel Barenboim (DG) 'These discs place Barenboim alongside them in the highest class of interpreters of Mozart's piano concertos, and demand to be owned even if you already possess other versions.' 'There is no sense of received wisdom, only a vital act of recreation that captures Bach’s masterpiece in all its first glory and magnitude no simple-minded notions of period style or strict parameters but a moving sense of music of a timeless veracity.'īerlin Philharmonic / Daniel Barenboim pf (Teldec) J S Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2 'This performance, exciting and occasionally thrilling though it is, is not remotely Italian.It's a 'through-composed' linked-up performance, paced withy a dramatic curve that makes even the punchiest Italian-led ones.feel like number opera.The non-Italian soloists are in good fearless voice and aurally well integrated into this concept.' ![]() That is the really startling achievement here and it manifests itself in playing that is as exciting as it is nuanced.'Īnja Harteros sop / Elīna Garanča mez / Jonas Kaufmann ten / René Pape bass / Orchestra e coro del Teatro alla Scala, Milan / Daniel Barenboim (Decca) 'Barenboim’s long association with, and love for, Elgar has effectively made it part of his musical DNA.And because he is a master he has somehow communicated all of that, both in practical and spiritual terms, to an orchestra for whom it is relatively unfamiliar. Gramophone Awards Finalist 2016 - Orchestra ![]() Staatskapelle Berlin / Daniel Barenboim (Decca) Her musicality always comes with an element of surprise.This is concerto-playing of the very highest order.Every familiar phrase somehow manages to sound both authoritative and newly discovered.a delight from start to finish.'Įlgar Symphony No 1 in A flat major, Op. 'Everything feels ‘in the moment’, a quality of improvisation like music created in the playing of it. Gramophone Awards Finalist 2017 - Concerto Lisa Batiashvili vn Staatskapelle Berlin / Daniel Barenboim (DG) They embody deeper memories and seek out larger horizons, as Brahms himself did when he created these astonishing works.' 'These are not ‘here today, gone tomorrow’ performances, as so many latter-day Brahms recordings are. Staatskapelle Berlin / Daniel Barenboim (DG) ![]()
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