Daniel Barenboim – review

Wigmore Hall, LondonIt is more than 30 years since Daniel Barenboim played the Wigmore Hall where, as a prodigy in short trousers, he once performed Beethoven's Hammer-klavier sonata. This much-anticipated return was a huge and happy coup for the Wigmore's director John Gilhooly, and Barenboim, with an audience that seemed to consist of most of the people who matter in London music, clearly treated it as a serious and special occasion too.Barenboim plays everything in the repertoire, but Schuber...

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