Prom 13: West-Eastern Divan Orchestra/Barenboim – review

Royal Albert Hall, LondonThere is a summer love-in going on at the Albert Hall this week between the Proms audience and Daniel Barenboim's Arab-Israeli orchestra as they make their way through the Beethoven symphonies and works of Pierre Boulez. And why not? Coming to it midway through, however, it felt as if the enthusiasm is as much for the noble cultural project and the great man at its helm as for the performances themselves, which are sometimes, it needs to be said, rather patchy and undera...

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