I recently mentioned the Sinfini Music website, which has an interesting piece on one of the current-day legends in classical music: Daniel Barenboim. You can see it here.
The post went up in November in honor of Mr. Barenboim's 70th birthday.
I particularly like the snippet of a rehearsal of Schubert's Trout Quintet, with the incredible cast of Barenboim on piano, Itzhak Perlman and Pinchas Zukerman on violin, Zubin Mehta on bass, and Barenboim's late wife, the incomparable Jacqueline du Pré, on cello. All looking young and vibrant.
I've seen Barenboim in person once, back in 2007 at Carnegie Hall, where he conducted the Vienna Philharmonic in Mendelssohn's Fingal's Cave overture, Schumann's 4th Symphony and a variety of concert pieces from Wagner. A pretty good lineup from one of the world's great orchestras led by one of the world's great conductors.
Of course, as an unabashed Wagnerian, I was especially interested in that part of the program. Barenboim is regarded as one of the best interpreters of Wagner's music, and the VPO a generation or more earlier had helped create what Gramophone magazine called "the greatest recording of all time" -- the first studio recording of The Ring of the Nibelung, conducted by Georg Solti.
And yes, that Sunday matinee concert at Carnegie Hall with Daniel Barenboim exceeded my high expectations.
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