Ever since his Buenos Aires recital debut as a prodigy in 1950, Daniel Barenboim has been an old soul at the piano, inspired by venerable models such as the conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler. As such, ...

Not everyone will agree with Daniel Barenboim`s romantic conception of Beethoven, but surely few will resist the power and drama of his approach. Barenboim–who gave the third recital in his Beethoven ...

The 32 Beethoven piano sonatas are an adventuresome, vastly varied, pathbreaking body of works. For the composer they were a proving ground, a kiln of musical ideas, a means of stretching his genius.

The 32 piano sonatas that Beethoven composed between 1799 and 1824, including some of his most recognized works like the "Moonlight" and "Appassionata" sonatas, are often considered among the German ...

In this recording, seven-time GRAMMY® Award-winning pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim tackles the so-called 'New Testament' of music, Ludwig van Beethoven's thirty-two piano sonatas, composed ...

In 2005, legendary pianist Daniel Barenboim performed the complete Beethoven piano sonatas over 8 concerts in 2 weeks at the Staatsoper in Berlin. These definitive performances were lavishly filmed ...

Beethoven’s music is as valid today as it has always been, says conductor, pianist, teacher and peacemaker Daniel Barenboim. Daniel Barenboim’s experience of helping Israeli Jews and Palestinian Arabs ...

This week, Daniel Barenboim played Beethoven in Ramallah and let it be known that he had accepted honorary Palestinian citizenship, thus setting the seal on his campaign to persuade Israel's oppressed ...

The first event in Daniel Barenboim’s four recitals of Schubert sonatas involved several component parts that added up to a distinctly odd evening. Let’s dispatch one right away: the Royal Festival ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A few years ago Igor Levit released a set of Beethoven’s late piano sonatas that drew great acclaim. It set off ...