Beethoven + Boulez = Revelation

Daniel Barenboim's Beethoven may be the big draw at the Proms this week, but it's his programming of Boulez that has proved so illuminatingThere's something remarkable going on at the Royal Albert Hall this week. I mean, of course, Daniel Barenboim's cycle of Beethoven's symphonies with his West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, which climaxes on 27 July with the Ninth, starting at an earlier time of 6.30pm to let you hear the whole Prom before the opening ceremony for the oversized, school sports day in...

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