'I'll always associate Beethoven's 7th with the fall of the Berlin wall'

Daniel Barenboim, the Argentine-born conductor and long-term Berlin resident, who played a concert at the Brandenburg Gate with his Staatskapelle orchestra.I was recording with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra in West Berlin when the wall fell. When I came to the recording studio on Friday 10 November I discussed with the musicians, who were in a highly excitable state, what we could do to mark the event. We planned a free concert on the Sunday evening exclusively for the citizens of East Germa...

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