Proms 9 and 10: West-Eastern Divan O/Barenboim

Royal Albert Hall, LondonDaniel Barenboim conducting or playing Beethoven is a box-office banker anywhere, and as soon as this summer's Proms season was made public, all the tickets were snapped up for his cycle of the symphonies with the West-Eastern Divan, the orchestra of Israeli and Arab musicians that he founded in 1999 with Edward Said. The admiration for Barenboim and his orchestra was obvious from the very start of the first concert, though it did take a while for their performances to l...

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