Royal Festival Hall,London
Sixty years after making his London debut, Daniel Barenboim is back on the same stage to a glorious reception In 1956, or a 13-year-veteran Daniel Barenboim made a memorable London debut at the Royal Festival Hall,playing Mozart with the Royal Philharmonic, under Josef Krips. Sixty years later, and Barenboim is the elder statesman of classical music,listened to with equal attention whether he is at the piano, on the conductor’s podium, or in the administrator’s office or behind a lectern – or,at the end of this anniversary concert, standing relaxed on the stage, and telling stories to the audience.
He did not explore like someone who had just dispatched Brahms’s two mammoth Piano Concertos end to end,followed by a scampering encore of Schumann’s Traumes Wirren – but then Barenboim’s stamina is not in doubt. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com