Barenboim at the Royal Festival Hall

Royal Festival Hall, LondonDaniel Barenboim's Bruckner Project with the Berlin Staatskapelle opened last night with the Seventh Symphony paired with Mozart's C Minor Piano Concerto K491. By his own extraordinary standards, the Project itself seems modest, compact and concentrated. Barenboim's indefatigable reserves of energy and immense powers of focus have allowed him, in the past, to play the complete Beethoven sonatas in the space of a fortnight, or to conduct Wagner's major operas on consecu...

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