Prom 12: West-Eastern Divan Orchestra/Barenboim – review

Royal Albert Hall, LondonThe third of Daniel Barenboim's Beethoven-Boulez Proms with the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra will be remembered for a blunder that caused a considerable number of people, myself included, to miss part of it. The programme told us the interval came after the second piece of the evening, Boulez's Mémoriale (" … explosante-fixe … " Originel), when in fact it came after his Messagesquisse, placed third. Slips about the change weren't distributed to a substantial section...

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