Berlin Staatskapelle/Barenboim

Royal Festival HallIf the first of Daniel Barenboim's Festival Hall concerts juxtaposing Beethoven's five piano concertos with orchestral ­music by Schoenberg was ­memorable, then the second was even more ­remarkable. The pairing was the string-orchestra version of Verklärte Nacht with the fifth concerto, the Emperor, and both performances were charged with a special, insistent urgency.Barenboim's approach to ­conducting has always owed much to Wilhelm Furtwängler, and this sur...

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